Backend Engineer AI Platform (Remote/Hybrid)

Coda; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent health care

Disability and life insurance options

401(k) and RRSP matching

Paid parental leave

PTO and holidays + floating holidays

Home office stipend

Professional development budget

Job summary

Superhuman is seeking a Back-End Engineer to build high‑throughput services powering AI agent orchestration, real‑time data pipelines, and session history across the Go, Mail, Docs and Enterprise surfaces.

You will design core platform services, collaborate with ML/AI, Product, and Front‑End teams, and help ship AI‑powered features end to end. The role emphasizes reliability, IaC, and strong documentation in a hybrid US setting.

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 — building infrastructure for LLM-based features, managing agentic workflows, or integrating with ML pipelines.
• Fluency with AI coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) and a point of view on how they change the way teams build software.
• Experience with real-time systems, event-driven architectures, or high-throughput API design is a plus.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, manage priorities across multiple projects, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong product instincts — you care about the end-user experience and can make good tradeoffs between speed and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate high-throughput production services that power AI agent orchestration, connector integrations, and real-time data pipelines.
• Design and build core platform services — task schedulers, session and conversation history, client-server protocols, and the APIs that connect our AI engine to every product surface.
• Work across the Superhuman product suite — whether that's Go, Mail, Docs, or Enterprise — depending on where you and the team see the best fit.
• Collaborate closely with ML/AI, Product, and Front-End engineers to ship AI-powered features end to end.
• Build and evolve infrastructure as code, targeting high availability for both consumer and enterprise customers.
• Contribute to an engineering culture with a strong emphasis on documentation, testing, and reliability.
• Mentor and grow junior engineers on the team.

Skills

Back-end development

AWS

Real-time systems

CI/CD

AI tooling awareness

Independent work

Cross-functional collaboration

Product instincts

Tools

Go

APIs

Job description

Superhuman is seeking a Back-End Engineer to build high‑throughput services powering AI agent orchestration, real‑time data pipelines, and session history across the Go, Mail, Docs and Enterprise surfaces.

You will design core platform services, collaborate with ML/AI, Product, and Front‑End teams, and help ship AI‑powered features end to end. The role emphasizes reliability, IaC, and strong documentation in a hybrid US setting.