Remote Backend Engineer – AI & Real-Time Systems (LATAM)

Superhuman; United States; Remote; USD 124,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Parental Leave

Maternity Leave

Generous PTO

Dependent & Pet Care Coverage

Wellness Budget

Training & Books Budget

Work From Home stipend

Job summary

Superhuman is seeking a Back-End Engineer to build and operate high-throughput services powering AI agent orchestration and real-time data pipelines across the Mail team. You will design scalable core platform services and collaborate with ML/AI and Front-End engineers to ship AI-powered features end to end.

This role emphasizes reliability, testing, and documentation, with opportunities to mentor junior engineers and contribute to the product roadmap as the platform grows with AI capabilities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of back-end development with strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures and system design.
• Experience building, deploying and debugging large-scale production systems.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms (GCP, Azure).
• Fluency with AI coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc.).
• 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 and manage priorities across projects.
• Strong product instincts; balance speed and reliability for end users.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate high-throughput production services powering AI agent orchestration and real-time data pipelines.
• Design and build core platform services to enable system scalability.
• Work across the product suite—Go, Mail, Docs, or Enterprise—based on team fit.
• Collaborate with ML/AI, Product, and Front-End engineers to ship AI-powered features end to end.
• Build and evolve infrastructure as code for high availability for consumers and enterprises.
• Contribute to an engineering culture with documentation, testing, and reliability.
• Mentor and grow junior engineers on the team.

Skills

Back-end development

Production systems

Cloud platforms

AI coding tools

Real-time systems

CI/CD

Independent work

Product instincts

Job description

Superhuman is seeking a Back-End Engineer to build and operate high-throughput services powering AI agent orchestration and real-time data pipelines across the Mail team. You will design scalable core platform services and collaborate with ML/AI and Front-End engineers to ship AI-powered features end to end.

This role emphasizes reliability, testing, and documentation, with opportunities to mentor junior engineers and contribute to the product roadmap as the platform grows with AI capabilities.