Remote AI Backend Engineer — Scalable APIs & Pipelines

Alignerr Corp.; Calgary; On-site; CAD 83,000 - 124,000; Part time

Job summary

Alignerr is seeking a Back End Developer in a fully remote contract role to design, build, and optimize server-side systems and APIs powering AI products. You’ll craft data pipelines, model-serving infrastructure, and scalable microservices handling real-world traffic.

This role is remote, flexible, and offers autonomy on your schedule. As part of a distributed team, you’ll design robust architectures, integrate with cloud services, databases, and third-party APIs, and contribute to code quality

Qualifications

• Design, develop, and maintain robust back end services, APIs, and data pipelines.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills with a focus on quality.

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

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Alignerr is seeking a Back End Developer in a fully remote contract role to design, build, and optimize server-side systems and APIs powering AI products. You’ll craft data pipelines, model-serving infrastructure, and scalable microservices handling real-world traffic.

This role is remote, flexible, and offers autonomy on your schedule. As part of a distributed team, you’ll design robust architectures, integrate with cloud services, databases, and third-party APIs, and contribute to code quality