Senior Backend Engineer is open at Citizen in New York City. The posting gives a salary of $200K - $260K. Posted on Sep 24, 2026, and still on Citizen’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 15, 2026.
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…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Citizen’s careers page.
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