Applied AI Backend Tech Lead — Scale & Reliability
Mercor
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Job summary
Mercor is seeking a Tech Lead for the Applied AI Backend Systems to own and evolve the backend stack. You will design data models, APIs, and data pipelines, ship production-ready services, and mentor engineers across multiple teams.
The role emphasizes hands-on leadership and durable, scalable systems in a high-velocity environment. You will drive architectural decisions, ensure reliability under heavy traffic, and collaborate with product, operations, and research partners to translate
Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers.
- Strong fundamentals in backend engineering: data structures, algorithms, concurrency.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture of the backend domain and core services.
- Set the technical direction and contribute hands-on to build the hardest parts.
- Lead design reviews and mentor engineers across teams.
- Manage infrastructure as code and on-call incidents.
- Collaborate with product, operations, and research to ship reliable systems.
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Job description
Mercor is seeking a Tech Lead for the Applied AI Backend Systems to own and evolve the backend stack. You will design data models, APIs, and data pipelines, ship production-ready services, and mentor engineers across multiple teams.
The role emphasizes hands-on leadership and durable, scalable systems in a high-velocity environment. You will drive architectural decisions, ensure reliability under heavy traffic, and collaborate with product, operations, and research partners to translate
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