Who we are:
Yoodli is your private AI roleplay and communication coach. Our mission is to help people around the world communicate with confidence - without feeling judged. We’ve raised $7M+ in seed funding from leading investors like Madrona, AI2, and Cercano. Our partnerships, including Google, Sandler, and Toastmasters International, are helping us bring personalized roleplays and communication coaching to hundreds of thousands of users.
We’re a fast-growing, mission-driven team based at the AI House in Seattle. Our team includes alumni from GoogleX, Apple, Intuit, and more. You can try Yoodli free at yoodli.ai.
Watch our founding story and learn more about our “why” in this TED Talk.
What we’re hoping you bring:
- Business impact & customer obsession: A laser focus on delivering backend services that power real customer value—tying decisions to business outcomes and user delight
- API & system architecture expertise: Deep experience designing scalable, maintainable APIs and backend systems, with a bias for moving fast and learning by building
- Enablement partner: A collaborative mindset—translating customer and product needs into platform capabilities that accelerate delivery of engaging features across the organization.
- Operational excellence: Hands-on leadership of SLO/SLI definition, empathetic on-call rotations, and incident response processes that strengthen reliability without unnecessary complexity.
About You:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 1 year in people management
- Expert in backend languages and frameworks (e.g. Go, Python, Java, Node.js) and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, container orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS/etc)
- Strong operational chops: on-call leadership, SLO/SLI definition, monitoring, alerting and capacity planning
- Demonstrated ability to define and execute multi-quarter platform roadmaps in partnership with engineering and product stakeholders
Extra credit experience:
- Familiarity with Document DBs, Elastisearch, and BigQuery (or similar technologies)
- Experience with security, privacy, and compliance programs (SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, etc)
- Prior startup experience
What’s in it for you?