Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Integrations) at Read AI, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$180,000–$210,000from the description
Jul 13, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior backend engineering role on the team responsible for connecting Read AI's platform to third-party services such as Google, Microsoft, Slack, Zoom, and Salesforce. Day-to-day work involves designing and shipping integrations end-to-end, maintaining and evolving event-driven infrastructure built on Kafka and SQS, and building observability tooling for integration health. Suits engineers with deep distributed systems and API design experience, particularly in event-driven and third-party integration contexts.
Senior level · 7+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 22,600 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 13,500–33,800
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
Kafka and SQS are listed together as the event-driven infrastructure the team runs on; the JD treats them as the same requirement ('Kafka, SQS, or similar'), so they are emitted as a single must-have with each as the other's alternative.
Python is the target ramp-up language; the JD accepts Java or similar as the current background, so Java is listed as an alternative rather than a separate gate.
OAuth2 and webhooks appear in the requirements block under the third-party API integration domain — treated as hard gates even though framed as 'familiarity with'.
CDC streaming, Zoom API, and Salesforce API appear only in narrative/context sections describing the team's existing stack, not in the requirements block — marked preferred.
The posted base pay range ($180,000–$210,000/year) is explicitly described as a guideline; actual compensation may vary. Equity and benefits are also offered.
The posting states the company does not provide visa sponsorship.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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