Remote Backend Engineer - Feature Ownership, AI-Driven

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Team Member Resource Groups

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock-P

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer to take backend features from clarification through shipping, collaborating with Product, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Security to ensure quality, security, and performance across services. You will work in a remote-first, asynchronous environment with seasoned engineers.

You will design, implement, test, and ship backend features using Ruby/Rails, Go, or other modern languages, while maintaining APIs, data models, and

Qualifications

• Production backend experience with building and shipping backend services.
• Experience with Ruby/Rails, Go or other modern backend languages.
• Ability to own features from clarification through delivery.
• Strong understanding of security, reliability, and performance considerations.
• Comfort working in a remote, asynchronous team environment.

Responsibilities

• Own and ship backend features from design through production.
• Build for production: secure, observable, and performant APIs and services.
• Increase automated test coverage: unit, integration, contract, end-to-end as appropriate.
• Investigate failures and address operational risks in production.
• Leverage AI tools effectively while validating outputs.

Skills

Backend fundamentals

Adaptability

Feature ownership

Practical judgment

Clear communication

AI fluency

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer to take backend features from clarification through shipping, collaborating with Product, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Security to ensure quality, security, and performance across services. You will work in a remote-first, asynchronous environment with seasoned engineers.

You will design, implement, test, and ship backend features using Ruby/Rails, Go, or other modern languages, while maintaining APIs, data models, and