Backend Engineer

Modaxo; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Modaxo is building an enterprise AI platform for mission-critical transportation software in the United States. You will design and ship core platform services, APIs, and data integration with ownership from design to on-call support. You’ll work on scalable, multi-tenant systems and partner with product teams to deliver measurable value.

You’ll join a founding, senior team, shaping patterns and guardrails, while delivering production-ready capabilities on aggressive timelines.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production backend or distributed services.
• Ability to own correctness, tests, and operations end-to-end.
• Strong trade-off reasoning and clear communication with teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate core backend services and APIs for the platform.
• Build for multi-tenant SaaS with reliable data access and isolation.
• Collaborate with product teams to deliver value-based outcomes.
• Establish patterns, tests, and guardrails for a growing team.

Skills

Distributed backend

End-to-end ownership

Clear communication

Value-focused engineering

AI-backed engineering

Tools

C#/.NET

Python

Go

Job description

Описание

At Modaxo, we're passionate about changing the face of people transportation. We believe that all transportation services should be safe, efficient, convenient, and equitable. Our products power mission-critical operations across a variety of industry sectors. We're making a strategic investment in AI to transform our solutions. You will build the core services of a new enterprise AI platform - the APIs, orchestration, and data and integration on-ramps that our products build on. We ship working software on aggressive timelines; perfect is the enemy of shipped. You'll report to the Head of AI Platform Engineering and join a small, senior founding team building the platform from the ground up. The opportunity: build the services an entire product portfolio depends on, with a clean slate and real ownership.

Задачи

Why this role is different It's platform AND product. You build reusable platform capability while enabling product teams to ship features fast - balancing leverage with velocity. It's domain-first, not tech-first. You'll learn our customers' operational domain; the best platform choices come from understanding how the work actually runs. It's pragmatic build/buy. We win on integration and reliability using proven components - pragmatic decisions, not gold-plating.

It's a founding role - you help build the team. As an early hire you'll set the patterns, tests, and guardrails others build on, and help raise the bar as we hire. It's production-first, not research-first. We ship on aggressive timelines and own what we ship. It's value-based. You'll validate with product teams and customers and prioritize by value - building what moves outcomes, not what's novel.

Core Platform Services Design and build core backend services - APIs, orchestration, and access control - as reliable, well-tested production systems. Shape API design and developer experience for internal and external consumers of the platform. Contribute to the reference architecture and design records; keep boundaries clean so components stay swappable.

Multi-Tenant SaaS & Integration Build for multiple customers on shared infrastructure: isolation, quotas, and usage metering done properly. Build data and integration on-ramps - connector frameworks and governed data access that are idempotent and reliable at scale.

Ownership & Reliability Own services end to end: design, implementation, tests, deployment, and on-call for what you ship. Model failure modes explicitly - partial failure, retries, consistency, back-pressure - and design for them.

Delivering Value with Product & Customers Work with product teams and customers to validate results and outcomes, prioritizing by value. Take a value-based development approach: prove value with the smallest useful slice, then scale what works. Instrument and measure impact; let evidence - not opinion - drive what ships. Build automated QA - tests, quality gates, and regression checks - into the delivery pipeline.

Building the Team & Ways of Working Help build the team: contribute to hiring, raise the bar in interviews, and mentor as we grow. Foster a culture of technical excellence, customer obsession, and pragmatic shipping. Partner with product teams across the portfolio who own their own roadmaps.

Требования

• Production distributed systems: You've built and operated production backend or distributed services that other teams depend on.
• End-to-end ownership: You own correctness, tests, and operations for what you build.
• Trade-off reasoning: You describe systems by the trade-offs you made, not just the technologies you used.
• Clear communication: You explain your thinking clearly to engineers, product partners, and customers, and bring people along.
• Value and pragmatism: You focus on outcomes and value and make pragmatic calls to ship.
• Any of these strengthen an application - none are required: Multi-tenant SaaS: Backend services serving many customers with enforced isolation and metering.
• Gateways & orchestration: API gateways or workflow orchestration at scale.
• Integration frameworks: Connector or integration frameworks (API/EDI/CDC), not one-off scripts.
• LLM-backed services: Backend work behind AI or LLM features in production.
• Languages: Strength in C#/.NET or Python; Go a bonus.
• Architecture experience: System/platform design and trade-off judgement - one-way vs two-way doors.
• Enterprise scale: Experience building or operating enterprise-scale software and its reliability, security, and integration demands.
• AI-assisted engineering: You use AI coding assistants productively and supervise their output with judgement.

Worker Type: Regular Number of Openings Available: 3