Back-End Engineer — AI Infrastructure (Remote)

Alignerr Corp.; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 14,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Flexible hours

Freelance autonomy

Job summary

Alignerr is seeking a Back End Developer to design, build, and optimize server-side systems and APIs powering AI products. This fully remote contract role emphasizes scalable microservices and data pipelines that handle real-world traffic.

You will work with Python/Go/Java/Node.js, RESTful APIs, and cloud platforms, collaborating asynchronously with distributed teams and contributing to architecture decisions on your own schedule.

Qualifications

• Proficient in one or more backend languages and APIs.
• Experience designing scalable microservices architectures.
• Strong SQL/NoSQL database knowledge and cloud familiarity.
• Ability to work asynchronously across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and data pipelines
• Develop scalable server-side architecture for AI workloads
• Write clean, tested code with documentation
• Integrate with databases, queues, and cloud services
• Optimize performance, reliability, and scalability
• Collaborate with distributed teams and review code
• Work independently on task-based projects

Skills

Backend languages

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

Databases

Cloud platforms

Docker/Kubernetes

Git/CI-CD

Async collaboration

Debugging

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

Alignerr is seeking a Back End Developer to design, build, and optimize server-side systems and APIs powering AI products. This fully remote contract role emphasizes scalable microservices and data pipelines that handle real-world traffic.

You will work with Python/Go/Java/Node.js, RESTful APIs, and cloud platforms, collaborating asynchronously with distributed teams and contributing to architecture decisions on your own schedule.