Senior Software Engineer
Merge, San Francisco, CA
- Pay
- $190K–$235K / year
- Work type
- Onsite
- Level
- Senior
- Area
- Software engineering
- Posted
- Jul 18, 2025
About the role
Merge is the leading provider of agentic tools and customer-facing integrations for frontier LLMs, Fortune 500 organizations, and B2B SaaS companies.
Our platform offers two core products: Merge for Product, and Merge for Workforce. Merge for Product enables teams to ship AI features and integrations at massive scale. Merge for Workforce helps engineering teams govern AI access at the company level. Merge's enterprise-grade platform handles the entire integration lifecycle, from authentication and security to monitoring and maintenance. Thousands of companies trust Merge to accelerate product development, unblock sales, reduce customer churn, and save engineering resources—allowing them to focus on their core product.
Who are we looking for?
We are hiring backend and full stack engineers onto our two San Francisco based engineering teams. Our Foundations team is responsible for building Merge's infrastructure to help achieve new degrees of scale, performance, and reliability. Our Automation team is harnessing Applied AI and large language models (LLMs) to build net-new, externally facing products and to drive internal efficiency through automation, intelligent tooling, and AI-native user experiences. We are hiring for mid - to staff - level positions, with candidate evaluation based on a combination of relevant experience and performance in the interview process.
What you will do:
- Participate in roadmapping and architecture discussions
- Produce high-quality, production-ready, readable, maintainable code
- Lead large projects from initial inception to production
- Unblock and support your team of peers including engineers, designers, product managers, and business operators
The ideal candidate will have:
- 5-7+ years of full-time software engineering experience (looking for senior+ experience)
- An ability to perform in a fast paced environment dealing with ambiguous technical challenges
- Startup or SaaS experience preferred
- Experience with Python and Go
- Extensive knowledge of SQL databases (Postgres preferred)
- Full stack candidates should additionally have experience working with React and Typescript
Compensation:
- The cash compensation range for this role is $190,000 - $235,000
- Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, and certifications. In addition to cash compensation, all full time employees receive an equity compensation package
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