Back-End Engineer, AI Platform & Real-Time Systems

Coda; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Disability & life insurance

401(k) matching

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Wellness stipends

Professional development

Job summary

Superhuman, based in New York, is seeking a Back-End Engineer to build the AI-powered platform that supports our suite of apps. You will work on the scheduling layer, real-time infrastructure, and scalable services that connect our AI engine to Go, Mail, Docs, and Enterprise surfaces.

You will design services, collaborate with ML/AI and product teams, and contribute to a culture of testing and reliability while mentoring junior engineers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in back-end development with strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and system design.
• Experience building, deploying, and debugging production systems at scale.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms (GCP, Azure).
• Comfort working with AI-powered systems and building backend services for AI products is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate high-throughput production services powering AI agent orchestration and real-time data pipelines.
• Design core platform services: task schedulers, session history, APIs to connect AI engine to products.
• Collaborate with ML/AI, Product, and Front-End engineers to ship AI-powered features end to end.
• Maintain infrastructure as code with focus on high availability for consumer and enterprise customers.
• Mentor and grow junior engineers on the team.

Skills

Back-end development

Algorithms & data structures

System design

AWS

GCP/Azure

AI tooling

CI/CD

Real-time systems

Microservices

Tools

Go

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Job description

Superhuman, based in New York, is seeking a Back-End Engineer to build the AI-powered platform that supports our suite of apps. You will work on the scheduling layer, real-time infrastructure, and scalable services that connect our AI engine to Go, Mail, Docs, and Enterprise surfaces.

You will design services, collaborate with ML/AI and product teams, and contribute to a culture of testing and reliability while mentoring junior engineers.