Remote Backend Engineer for AI Infrastructure & Scale

Alignerr; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 83,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

Alignerr is seeking Back End Developers for a remote hourly contract to design, build, and optimize server-side systems powering AI products. Work on data pipelines, model-serving infra, and scalable microservices that handle real-world traffic at scale.

This fully remote, flexible contract role offers 10–40 hours/week. You’ll collaborate with distributed teams across time zones and contribute to robust backend architectures for AI-adjacent infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Back-end developer with API and services experience.
• Strong knowledge of RESTful API design and microservices.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis.
• Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Familiar with Git, CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust back end services and data pipelines.
• Build scalable server-side architecture to support AI workloads.
• Write clean, well-documented, testable code following best practices.
• Integrate with databases, queues, cloud services, and third-party APIs.
• Improve performance, reliability, and scalability as usage grows.
• Collaborate asynchronously with distributed teams of engineers and researchers.
• Troubleshoot production issues and participate in code reviews.
• Work independently on task- and project-based assignments.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Node.js

Rust

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

Git

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

AWS

GCP

Azure

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Alignerr is seeking Back End Developers for a remote hourly contract to design, build, and optimize server-side systems powering AI products. Work on data pipelines, model-serving infra, and scalable microservices that handle real-world traffic at scale.

This fully remote, flexible contract role offers 10–40 hours/week. You’ll collaborate with distributed teams across time zones and contribute to robust backend architectures for AI-adjacent infrastructure.