Backend Engineer (Learn)
SanaSweden19 hours ago
Full-timeEngineering, Information Technology
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About Sana
At Sana, we’re building Learn—an AI-powered learning platform that combines the simplicity of a modern LMS with intelligent features like AI tutor, automated content generation, and interactive apps. Our goal is to help enterprises make knowledge not just accessible, but actionable at scale.
We’re a product-obsessed team of engineers and designers from companies like Google, Spotify, and Databricks, united by a focus on technical excellence and rapid iteration. With Learn already supporting hundreds of leading enterprises, we’re just getting started—and there’s much more to build.
About The Role
You'll build and evolve the core services that power agents and product features, with a focus on enterprise-scale workloads, performance optimization, and long-term architectural sustainability. You drive architecture and systems design to ensure our platform can support high volumes of data, entities, and demanding enterprise clients.
In this role, you will
We build on a simple modern stack optimized for both humans and AI:
At Sana, we’re building Learn—an AI-powered learning platform that combines the simplicity of a modern LMS with intelligent features like AI tutor, automated content generation, and interactive apps. Our goal is to help enterprises make knowledge not just accessible, but actionable at scale.
We’re a product-obsessed team of engineers and designers from companies like Google, Spotify, and Databricks, united by a focus on technical excellence and rapid iteration. With Learn already supporting hundreds of leading enterprises, we’re just getting started—and there’s much more to build.
About The Role
You'll build and evolve the core services that power agents and product features, with a focus on enterprise-scale workloads, performance optimization, and long-term architectural sustainability. You drive architecture and systems design to ensure our platform can support high volumes of data, entities, and demanding enterprise clients.
In this role, you will
- Design and decompose services and APIs for scale and clarity
- Build eventing and queue systems for reliable, high-throughput data flows
- Lead schema evolution, migrations, query/index optimization and caching strategies
- Define and enforce consistency models and multi-region readiness
- Optimize for performance budgets and privacy/tenant isolation
- Work hands-on with TypeScript/Node, Postgres, and distributed systems primitives
- Core services are reliable, scalable, and easy to evolve
- Risks are identified and solved before issues become critical
- APIs are clear, well-documented, and power seamless product experiences
- Data boundaries are robust—privacy and tenant isolation are never compromised
- Performance budgets are met, even under heavy load
- You are a trusted partner for distributed systems design and implementation
We build on a simple modern stack optimized for both humans and AI:
- Backend: TypeScript, Kotlin, Node.js
- Frontend: TypeScript, React, Tailwind
- Databases: Postgres, Redis
- Cloud infra: GCP/Kubernetes/Terraform
- Help shape AI's future alongside brilliant minds from Notion, Dropbox, Slack, Databricks, Google, McKinsey, and BCG.
- Competitive salary complemented with a transparent and highly competitive options program.
- Swift professional growth in an evolving environment, supported by a culture of continuous feedback and mentorship from senior leaders.
- Work with talented teammates across 5+ countries, and collaborate with customers globally
- Regular team gatherings and events (recently in Italy and South Africa)
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