Hybrid Back-End Engineer — AI Platform & Real-Time Systems

Zoomcar; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent health care

Disability and life insurance

401(k) and RRSP matching

Paid parental leave

30 days of paid time off per year (est

Floating holidays

Job summary

Superhuman is building the AI productivity platform with a backend focus. As a Back-End Engineer, you will design high-throughput services powering AI agent orchestration and real-time data pipelines across Go, Mail, Docs, and Enterprise.

You’ll work at the intersection of systems engineering and AI, implementing session history, task scheduling, APIs, and real-time infrastructure. You’ll mentor juniors and contribute to a culture of reliability and documentation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience; strong algorithms & data structures.
• Experience at scale: building, deploying, and debugging production systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with AI-powered systems and ML pipelines.
• Fluency with AI coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code etc.).
• Experience with real-time systems or high-throughput API design.
• CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
• Ability to work independently and with cross-functional teams.
• Strong product instincts focusing on user experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate high-throughput production services powering 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 — Go, Mail, Docs, or Enterprise — depending on where the team sees 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

Algorithms & data structures

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

AI integration / pipelines

Real-time / high-throughput systems

CI/CD / IaC

Independent work / prioritization

Product instincts

Job description

Superhuman is building the AI productivity platform with a backend focus. As a Back-End Engineer, you will design high-throughput services powering AI agent orchestration and real-time data pipelines across Go, Mail, Docs, and Enterprise.

You’ll work at the intersection of systems engineering and AI, implementing session history, task scheduling, APIs, and real-time infrastructure. You’ll mentor juniors and contribute to a culture of reliability and documentation.