AI-Enhanced Backend Engineer (Hybrid - Raleigh)

512Financial; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

PTO + holidays

401(k) company match

Competitive compensation

Team events

Job summary

512Financial is seeking a Software Engineer to advance AI-accelerated development across its Voice, Messaging, and Platform Services. You will collaborate with a senior team to ship features, integrate AI coding assistants, and explore AI agents for real engineering tasks.

The role emphasizes strong backend fundamentals, real-time traffic handling, and a hybrid Raleigh, NC presence with in-office Wednesdays and Thursdays. Strong communication and API experience are valued.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience, backend/API or distributed systems.
• Regular, hands-on use of AI coding tools.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, testing, and system design.
• Experience with a modern backend language/framework (Node.js, Python, Go, or Java); team is primarily Node with some Python.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship features across Voice, Messaging, and Platform Services systems (APIs, routing logic, carrier integrations, messaging pipelines)
• Use AI coding assistants as part of daily workflow
• Experiment with AI agents for real engineering tasks under senior guidance
• Support production systems handling real-time voice and messaging traffic, including a weekly on-call rotation
• Work with product management on scoping and estimation
• Write clear documentation on AI-assisted workflows and outcomes

Skills

AI tooling proficiency

Data structures

Testing

System design

Node.js

Python

Tools

Claude Code

Codex

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Job description

512Financial is seeking a Software Engineer to advance AI-accelerated development across its Voice, Messaging, and Platform Services. You will collaborate with a senior team to ship features, integrate AI coding assistants, and explore AI agents for real engineering tasks.

The role emphasizes strong backend fundamentals, real-time traffic handling, and a hybrid Raleigh, NC presence with in-office Wednesdays and Thursdays. Strong communication and API experience are valued.