Remote Backend Engineer for AI Infrastructure

Alignerr Corp.; Manila; Remote; PHP 1,731,000 - 5,192,000; Part time

Job summary

Alignerr Corp. in Manila seeks a Backend Developer to design, build, and optimize server-side systems and APIs powering AI products. The role emphasizes data pipelines, model-serving infrastructure, and scalable microservices that handle real-world traffic at scale.

This is a fully remote, flexible hourly contract. If you are an experienced backend engineer, you will contribute to AI-adjacent infrastructure and work with distributed teams across time zones.

Qualifications

• Back-end development with a focus on scalable APIs.
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems design.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain back end services, APIs, and data pipelines.
• Build scalable server-side architecture for AI workloads.
• Write clean, well-documented, and testable code.
• Integrate with databases, queues, cloud services, and third-party APIs.
• Optimize performance, reliability, and scalability as usage grows.
• Collaborate asynchronously with distributed teams of engineers and researchers.
• Troubleshoot production issues and participate in code reviews.
• Work independently on task- and project-based assignments.

Skills

Backend languages

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

Databases

Cloud platforms

Version control & CI/CD

Docker & Kubernetes

Problem solving

Async collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Alignerr Corp. in Manila seeks a Backend Developer to design, build, and optimize server-side systems and APIs powering AI products. The role emphasizes data pipelines, model-serving infrastructure, and scalable microservices that handle real-world traffic at scale.

This is a fully remote, flexible hourly contract. If you are an experienced backend engineer, you will contribute to AI-adjacent infrastructure and work with distributed teams across time zones.