Remote Backend Engineer: AI Infrastructure (Contract)

Alignerr Corp.; Amsterdam; Remote; EUR 14,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Alignerr is seeking Back End Developers in a fully remote contract to design, build, and optimize server-side systems and APIs that power cutting-edge AI products. The role offers flexible hours (10–40 hours/week) and the chance to work on data pipelines, model-serving infrastructure, and scalable microservices at scale.

You will collaborate with distributed teams across time zones, implement RESTful APIs, and ensure robust backend operations for AI workloads.

Qualifications

• Experience designing RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Ability to work asynchronously across time zones.

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 API design

microservices architecture

distributed systems

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Alignerr is seeking Back End Developers in a fully remote contract to design, build, and optimize server-side systems and APIs that power cutting-edge AI products. The role offers flexible hours (10–40 hours/week) and the chance to work on data pipelines, model-serving infrastructure, and scalable microservices at scale.

You will collaborate with distributed teams across time zones, implement RESTful APIs, and ensure robust backend operations for AI workloads.