Back End Engineer - AI Infrastructure (Remote Contract)

Alignerr Corp.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

Alignerr is seeking Back End Developers for a fully remote, hourly contract based in or around New York. You will design, build, and optimize server-side systems, APIs, and data pipelines that power AI-driven products, from AI training data workflows to scalable microservices handling real-world traffic.

Join a remote, flexible team and contribute to data pipelines, model-serving infrastructure, and high-performance backend engineering across distributed teams and time zones.

Qualifications

• Back-end languages: Python, Go, Java, Node.js, or Rust.
• RESTful API design and microservices in distributed systems.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Version control (Git), CI/CD, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain back-end services, APIs, and data pipelines.
• Build scalable server-side architecture to support AI workloads.
• Write clean, testable, well-documented 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.
• Conduct code reviews and contribute to architecture decisions.
• Work independently on task- and project-based assignments.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Node.js

Rust

RESTful API design

Microservices architecture

Distributed systems

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

AWS

GCP

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Alignerr is seeking Back End Developers for a fully remote, hourly contract based in or around New York. You will design, build, and optimize server-side systems, APIs, and data pipelines that power AI-driven products, from AI training data workflows to scalable microservices handling real-world traffic.

Join a remote, flexible team and contribute to data pipelines, model-serving infrastructure, and high-performance backend engineering across distributed teams and time zones.