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Senior Backend Engineer (Core, Agents, Learn)

Sana Roles
CompanySana Roles
CategoryEngineering
LocationStockholm
RemoteOn-site (inferred)
EmploymentNot stated
LevelSenior
SalaryNot stated by the employer
Posted3 Jan 2026
Last verified30 Jul 2026
SourceEmployer career page (ashby)
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Description
ABOUT SANA Sana is an AI lab building superintelligence for work. We believe organizations can accomplish their missions faster when teams can effortlessly access knowledge, automate repetitive work, and learn anything with the help of agentic AI. As part of Workday, we are committed to building AI that augments people - not replaces them. We bring this mission to life through two products. Sana Agents provide a seamless way to access all your company’s apps, knowledge, and data, enabling AI agents to do real work so teams can process and act on information at unprecedented scale. Sana Learn is an AI-powered learning hub that combines the simplicity of a modern learning platform with intelligent features like an AI tutor, automated content generation, and interactive apps, making knowledge not just accessible but actionable. We’re a talent-dense, product-obsessed team of engineers and designers from companies like Google, Spotify, Apple, and Databricks, united by deep technical excellence and rapid iteration. Our tools already help over a million people learn and work better across hundreds of leading enterprises - and we’re just getting started. ABOUT THE ROLES You will work on the core backend systems that power Sana’s Learn platform and search infrastructure. You will redesign and scale systems to handle enterprise workloads, remove deep bottlenecks, and evolve our architecture for the era of AI and agents. We are hiring for two senior roles: 1. Senior Backend Engineer, Learn (Core Systems) 2. Senior Backend Engineer, Search 1. SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER, LEARN (CORE SYSTEMS) ABOUT THE ROLE You will focus on making the Learn platform, especially Manage, Insights, and APIs, scalable and maintainable for enterprise use. You will take systems that work at current scale and redesign them to handle much larger volumes of data, users, and entities. The work is primarily architectural and system level, with strong emphasis on Postgres and database design. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL - Redesign existing components to support enterprise scale workloads - Analyze and resolve bottlenecks in storage, query performance, APIs, and data models - Lead migrations away from legacy implementations to sustainable replacements - Improve reliability and efficiency of APIs and integrations for internal and external clients - Drive technical projects from definition to delivery with Product Managers and other teams - Maintain a long term view of system health and architecture - Share technical knowledge, review designs, and set best practices for backend and systems design WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE - Architecture and scalability are prioritized over short term fixes - Risks are identified early and addressed with solid technical solutions - You balance hands on coding with architectural leadership - Learn core systems support larger enterprise customers without performance or reliability issues - Strong Postgres skills (schema design, query optimization, indexing) improve performance and scalability 2. SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER, SEARCH ABOUT THE ROLE You will build and scale Sana’s search infrastructure for enterprise scale knowledge discovery. You will architect retrieval systems, ranking algorithms, and search APIs that handle large increases in volume while maintaining sub second latency and high relevance. You will rethink the search stack for the era of agents, using engines like Vespa, vector databases, and embedding models. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL - Architect and scale search infrastructure to billions of documents in multi tenant environments - Design hybrid search that combines keyword search with semantic understanding and vector search - Build ranking and personalization systems that learn from user behavior - Collaborate with AI engineers to integrate large language models into the search pipeline and build retrieval augmented systems - Optimize search perfo
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