Remote Backend Engineer (Go) — AI & Real-Time

Superhuman; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Parental Leave

Maternity Leave

PTO 20 days

Wellness budget

Books & Courses budget

Work From Home stipend

Job summary

Superhuman is seeking a Back-End Engineer on the Mail team to build and operate high-throughput services powering AI-driven workflows across calendar and messaging features. You’ll work with Go, Postgres, Kubernetes, and AWS, collaborating with ML/AI, Product, and Front-End engineers to ship end-to-end AI-powered capabilities.

You’ll contribute to scalable infrastructure, APIs, and real-time data pipelines while mentoring juniors and balancing reliability with speed in a fast-paced, globally

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience.
• Experience building production systems at scale.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Experience with AI-powered systems or ML pipelines.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and infrastructure as code.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate high-throughput production services powering AI agent orchestration and real-time data pipelines.
• Design and build core platform services—task schedulers, session and conversation history, SPI APIs connecting to the AI engine.
• Collaborate across product surfaces (Go, Mail, Docs, Enterprise) to fit the team’s needs.
• Work with ML/AI, Product, and Front-End engineers to ship AI-powered features end-to-end.
• Build and evolve infrastructure as code with a focus on high availability.
• Contribute to documentation, testing, and reliability; mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Go

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

AWS

AI pipelines

Tools

Docker

CI/CD

Terraform

Job description

Superhuman is seeking a Back-End Engineer on the Mail team to build and operate high-throughput services powering AI-driven workflows across calendar and messaging features. You’ll work with Go, Postgres, Kubernetes, and AWS, collaborating with ML/AI, Product, and Front-End engineers to ship end-to-end AI-powered capabilities.

You’ll contribute to scalable infrastructure, APIs, and real-time data pipelines while mentoring juniors and balancing reliability with speed in a fast-paced, globally