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Senior Backend Engineer

Citizen is hiring for Senior Backend Engineer in New York City. Senior level. First seen September 25, 2026, posted 2 times; open as of November 10, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Citizen
Where
New York City
Level
Senior
First seen
September 25, 2026
Postings
2
Listed via
Ashby

What the posting says

You will own core pieces of that system and ship them with a small team of engineers, human and agent. You will also build for the people inside Citizen who run the city. Our Mission Control and real-time operations team lives in our internal operating tools all day. A meaningful share of backend work is tooling for them, and they are the most demanding users you will have. WHY NOW Citizen is being rebuilt as an AI-native company, and the backend is where most of the rebuild happens. AI now sits in the pipeline itself, detecting and verifying incidents and deciding what people see, and the…

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