Senior Backend Engineer at Citizen
- Company: Citizen
- Location: New York City
- Employment type: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-09-24
About the role
A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER Citizen is a pipeline before it is an app. Signal comes in from every major American city, gets detected, verified, written, and delivered to the right people in seconds, and the whole thing has to hold when a million people open the app at once because something is happening. For years that took a large backend team. Now I build with agents and so do the engineers here, and a small group working that way out-ships teams five times the size. I want a backend engineer who is exceptional at the craft, runs agents like a second pair of hands, and treats a wrong alert as a bug with consequences. If that is you, come build the real-time system for the next chapter, next to me. ABOUT Citizen is the #1 safety app in the U.S.…
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