Remote-First Backend Engineer — AI-Driven Go Platform

Superhuman; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Insurance options

Retirement matching

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Superhuman is hiring Back-End Engineers for the Mail team to build the AI-enabled backend powering calendar, scheduling, and AI-driven workflows. You will work on real-time infrastructure and services connecting the AI layer to desktop, web, and mobile clients.

You will use Go, Postgres, Kubernetes, and AWS, collaborating with ML/AI, Product, and Front-End teams. The role emphasizes reliability, documentation, and scalable architecture across products like Go, Mail, Docs, and Enterprise.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of back-end development experience required.
• Experience deploying and debugging production systems at scale.
• Familiar with AWS or other cloud platforms (GCP, Azure).
• Comfort with AI-powered systems and building backend services for AI products.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate high-throughput production services powering AI agent orchestration, integrations, and real-time data pipelines.
• Design and build core platform services—task schedulers, sessions, history, protocols, and APIs.
• Work across the product suite (Go, Mail, Docs, Enterprise) for optimal fit.
• Collaborate with ML/AI, Product, and Front-End teams to ship AI-powered features end-to-end.
• Develop infrastructure as code with high availability for consumers and enterprises.
• Contribute to a culture focused on documentation, testing, and reliability.
• Mentor and grow junior engineers on the team.

Skills

Back-end development

Go

AWS

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AI integration

Tools

Go

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Job description

Superhuman is hiring Back-End Engineers for the Mail team to build the AI-enabled backend powering calendar, scheduling, and AI-driven workflows. You will work on real-time infrastructure and services connecting the AI layer to desktop, web, and mobile clients.

You will use Go, Postgres, Kubernetes, and AWS, collaborating with ML/AI, Product, and Front-End teams. The role emphasizes reliability, documentation, and scalable architecture across products like Go, Mail, Docs, and Enterprise.