Remote Backend Engineer for AI Infrastructure & APIs

Alignerr Corp.; Melbourne; Remote; AUD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

Alignerr Corp seeks Back End Developers to design, build, and optimize server-side systems and APIs powering AI products — from data pipelines and model-serving infrastructure to scalable microservices handling real-world traffic at scale.

This is a fully remote, flexible contract role across Australia. You’ll work with a team of engineers, researchers, and product leads on meaningful AI‑adjacent infrastructure, with async collaboration and global reach.

Qualifications

• Proficient in one or more back end languages (Python, Go, Java, Node.js, Rust).
• Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust back end services, APIs, and data pipelines
• Build scalable, high-performance server-side architecture to support AI training and inference workloads
• Write clean, well-documented, and testable code following engineering best practices
• Integrate with databases, message queues, cloud services, and third‑party APIs
• Optimize system performance, reliability, and scalability as usage grows
• Collaborate asynchronously with distributed teams of engineers, researchers, and product leads
• Troubleshoot production issues, conduct code reviews, and contribute to architectural decisions
• Work independently on task‑based and project‑based assignments on your own schedule

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Node.js

Rust

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

AWS

Job description

Alignerr Corp seeks Back End Developers to design, build, and optimize server-side systems and APIs powering AI products — from data pipelines and model-serving infrastructure to scalable microservices handling real-world traffic at scale.

This is a fully remote, flexible contract role across Australia. You’ll work with a team of engineers, researchers, and product leads on meaningful AI‑adjacent infrastructure, with async collaboration and global reach.