Backend Engineer, AI Platform & Distributed Systems

Relativity; Kansas City (MO); Hybrid; USD 79,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement programs

Wellness resources

Discretionary time off

Parental leave

Company-wide breaks

Home office stipend

Equity program

Job summary

Relativity is a leading legal data intelligence company building AI-powered, cloud-native backend services for the aiR platform. As a Software Engineer, you will design, build, and operate backend systems powering multi-region AI workloads and seamless integration with foundation models.

Join a collaborative, high-scale team to deliver reliable, secure services across regions. This hybrid/remote role offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and growth opportunities in cutting-edge AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building backend services using languages such as C#, Python, or similar.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and backend service design.

Responsibilities

• Design and build performant, scalable, and secure backend services with a strong focus on quality.
• Collaborate with a software development team to deliver high-quality, reliable systems at massive scale.
• Develop and maintain systems that support high-throughput AI workloads, including asynchronous job orchestration and distributed processing.
• Write comprehensive unit and integration tests supported by static analysis and thoughtful test strategy development.
• Contribute to improving engineering processes by recommending enhancements to tools, workflows, and practices.
• Participate in pair programming to improve software quality and share design and implementation knowledge.
• Contribute to building systems that route and manage AI traffic efficiently while maintaining reliability and fairness across workloads.

Skills

Backend development

C# / Python

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Azure

LLM APIs

Job description

Relativity is a leading legal data intelligence company building AI-powered, cloud-native backend services for the aiR platform. As a Software Engineer, you will design, build, and operate backend systems powering multi-region AI workloads and seamless integration with foundation models.

Join a collaborative, high-scale team to deliver reliable, secure services across regions. This hybrid/remote role offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and growth opportunities in cutting-edge AI