Backend Engineer

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly culture

Global team

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Stravito is seeking a Backend Engineer to architect and evolve our content systems, enabling millions of market research documents to power strategic decisions at world-leading brands.

Join a remote-first, globally distributed team and build scalable cloud-native services, robust APIs, and data models that power AI-driven insights. You’ll collaborate with product, design, and other engineering teams to raise the bar on performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• Back-end focused with distributed systems experience.
• Cloud-native experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience designing reliable APIs and scalable data models.
• Familiar with CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve scalable content systems for enterprise-scale workloads.
• Ingest and process large volumes of market research documents.
• Build and maintain robust APIs and integrations across systems.
• Collaborate with product and design to enable customer-facing features.
• Ensure performance, reliability, and maintainability of pipelines.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Cloud infrastructure

APIs

CI/CD

Collaboration

Tools

Elasticsearch

React

TypeScript

Job description

While generic AI struggles with hallucinations and shallow analysis, Fortune 500 brands need strategic intelligence they can trust with billion-dollar decisions. We're building the specialized AI that delivers it.We are Stravito and this is the problem we solve.Stravito transforms how Consumer Insights professionals and Brand Managers work by building AI that automates their core workflows while eliminating hallucinations. We help world-leading organizations across industries accelerate strategic decision-making by turning millions of market research documents into intelligent systems that generate reports, discover insights proactively, and synthesize knowledge across vast content libraries.The MissionBuild the data backbone that powers billion-dollar decisions at world-leading companies. We're looking for a Backend Engineer to architect and evolve the content systems that handle millions of market research documents and enable strategic decisions at the world's largest brands.Your mission is to grow our robust, scalable content foundation that enables seamless access to business-critical content through APIs and reliable processing capabilities that other teams build upon.Our platform processes a massive amount of market research documents and data points, powering intelligent workflows for the core work our users do at global brands.

What Makes This Role Unique

• Foundation for AI innovation: Build the content infrastructure that enables our AI brain to process the data that matters.
• Enterprise-scale challenges: Handle content ingestion from global industry elading companies with diverse requirements
• Ownership: Your decisions impact how thousands of professionals access business-critical insights
• Cross-team enablement: Create and evolve the APIs and data models that empower our customer-facing product teams to innovate.

What You’ll Do

Transform how Fortune 500 companies access their research intelligence:

• Connect diverse ecosystems: Build and maintain robust integrations that seamlessly ingest content from diverse enterprise systems
• Design for scale: Create content processing systems that handle millions of documents while maintaining low API response times
• Enable AI innovation: Build the data models that power our AI brain's ability to synthesize insights across massive content libraries
• Set the technical foundation: Establish patterns, standards, and interfaces that enable product teams to rapidly build customer-facing features
• Optimize for performance: Ensure reliable, performant content systems across all ingestion channels

What We Need

• Back-end expertise: Strong experience designing and building distributed systems and handling large-scale content processing. We care more about your engineering fundamentals than any specific language or framework
• Cloud-native mindset: Hands-on experience running services in modern cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar), with containerization and infrastructure as code. Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices is important
• Integration mastery: Proven track record of building reliable APIs and integration patterns for diverse data sources and formats
• System thinking: Ability to design scalable, maintainable data models that empower other teams to build on top of them
• Collaboration & curiosity: Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach, with a curious, innovative mindset that thrives in cross-functional teams with product and design
• Nice to have: Experience with search technologies such as Elasticsearch, exposure to front-end development (React/TypeScript or similar), deeper familiarity with AWS services

The salary range for this role depends on location and will proactively be shared with you in the first interview.

What’s in it for you?

Join a remote-first, globally distributed team of 100+ professionals from 30+ nationalities, united by our core values: simplicity first, an 'own it, do it' mentality, embracing different perspectives, and enjoying the journey together. We bring everyone together for company events throughout the year to strengthen our global connections.

You'll grow alongside seasoned professionals with deep expertise across AI, market research, and enterprise systems. We offer exceptional career development opportunities in our fast-evolving market, competitive compensation, and a collaborative culture where everyone actively supports each other's success.

Most importantly, you'll have the satisfaction of simplifying the professional lives of thousands of Brand Managers and Consumer Insights professionals worldwide, making their strategic decisions more data-driven and impactful.