Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Airtable sits in a mature segment of SaaS where the product functions as a platform other teams build on, which makes backend work unusually close to real customer workflows. The listing signals complexity typical of established multi-tenant products, where reliability, scalability, and clarity of behavior matter as much as shipping features. The focus on monetization surfaces like sharing, pricing, and payments also places engineering squarely in the part of SaaS where product decisions and system design meet.
For a long-term SaaS engineering path, this role builds durable experience in product-oriented backend development rather than pure infrastructure. It touches experimentation and data-informed iteration, while still requiring strong fundamentals in large-scale web architecture and performance. Exposure to billing and purchasing systems is especially transferable across subscription businesses, where correctness, observability, and edge cases tend to define engineering maturity.
This role fits an experienced engineer who prefers owning end-to-end delivery and making deliberate tradeoffs between speed and rigor. It will suit someone who enjoys cross-functional collaboration and can translate ambiguous user and business needs into maintainable systems. The location constraints and hybrid model indicate it best matches candidates comfortable with structured team collaboration across specific hubs.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Airtable’s mission is to bring the power of computing and software development to everyone. We are developing a powerful and extensible platform that our customers can leverage to solve a variety of different problems and workflows. We’ve seen our most sophisticated customers use the product to run global processes across thousands of employees, coordinate precision manufacturing pipelines, and consolidate previously siloed mission-critical data into a single source of truth. The complexity of these use cases requires us to be extremely thoughtful about how we design and implement new functionality in the product and make sure it’s both easy to use and comprehend for our customers and maintainable for us.
As a Full-Stack, Backend engineer at Airtable, you will have the opportunity to work with customers to deeply understand their needs and workflows. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners across product management, design, research and data science to create innovative new features that enable our customers to do their best work. You will be responsible for owning and executing the end-to-end implementation of these new features that will contribute to making our toolkit even more powerful and successful.
We currently have openings on:
- The Monetization Team (Full-Stack/BE) is a high-impact team focused on driving user engagement and revenue across Airtable’s core surfaces, including sharing, pricing, and payments. Engineers on this team build polished, user-facing features, run experiments that shape product direction, and maintain the systems that power billing and purchasing. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Data, leverage AI to personalize the user journey, and play a key role in helping users discover and unlock the full value of Airtable.
Please note: while we employ a hybrid working model at Airtable (flexible in working from the office or elsewhere), we are only hiring in the following locations at this time:
- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and are open to coming into our office (Embarcadero) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration
- Based in New York City and are open to coming into our office (Soho) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration
- Based remotely in the greater Seattle area
What you'll do
- Design and build systems that dramatically increase the scalability and performance of all applications built on Airtable, to earn the trust of our customers through predictable, reliable, and thoughtful interactions.
- Work at the deep backend of the Airtable software stack within the Enterprise Product portion of the org, just above the Infrastructure org.
- Partner with product managers, designers, and data scientists to understand the needs of potential users and build a product that unlocks their potential.
- Work alongside and learn from a talented group of engineers with a diverse range of experiences and backgrounds.
Who you are
- You have 8+ years of industry experience with modern systems development, ideally database internals development.
- You are interested in programming in TypeScript and Rust.
- You are excited by a product-oriented backend role, i.e. not pure Infrastructure.
- You have a good understanding of modern web technologies and large-scale web application architecture.
- You have a background in computer science or a related field.
- You believe the best product is the one that helps users accomplish their goals while growing the business.
- You take a thoughtful approach to decision making; knowing when to move fast and when to do things right.
- You have strong convictions, weakly held and assume validation and iteration are a given to produce the best results.
- You show strong ownership instincts and sweat the details.
- You are currently based and/or will be based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Airtable is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and strive to create a workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any characteristic protected by applicable federal and state laws, regulations and ordinances. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
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