Remote Backend Engineer — Build scalable APIs & services

Applied Methods Ltd; New York (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI in New York City / remote is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs powering our products. You will collaborate with product and design to translate ideas into production-ready systems, focusing on data modeling, performance, reliability, and observability.

Ideal candidates have production backend experience, strong language skills, API/db expertise, and familiarity with cloud infrastructure, testing, and deployment workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating backend applications in production.
• Strong proficiency in a backend programming language.
• Solid understanding of API design, relational databases, and data modeling.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, automated testing, and deployment workflows.
• Ability to balance speed with quality and make practical technical decisions.
• Clear communication and a collaborative approach to solving problems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs.
• Develop data models and improve database performance.
• Build integrations with third-party services.
• Improve system reliability, security, and observability.
• Write tested, maintainable code and participate in code reviews.
• Investigate production issues and address their root causes.
• Help shape technical decisions as the product grows.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Relational databases

Data modeling

Cloud infrastructure

Automated testing

Deployment workflows

Communication

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

Distributed systems

Background jobs

Event-driven architectures

Caching

Queues

Performance optimization

Job description

OpenAI in New York City / remote is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs powering our products. You will collaborate with product and design to translate ideas into production-ready systems, focusing on data modeling, performance, reliability, and observability.

Ideal candidates have production backend experience, strong language skills, API/db expertise, and familiarity with cloud infrastructure, testing, and deployment workflows.