Remote Full-Stack SDE II: Backend, APIs & Microservices

Gather AI; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Gather AI is hiring an SDE II, Full Stack for our India-based team, fully remote. You’ll build and run the web platforms behind Gather AI’s products - Drone Vision, MHE Vision and SAGE, from customer-facing dashboards down to the APIs, Integration layers and data pipelines that serve them.

This is a fully remote, hands-on engineering role for someone early in their career who already has experience building production software and wants broader ownership.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production software.
• An engineering degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Production experience with Python and Node.js/NestJS, with strong production depth in at least one and working experience with the other.
• Experience building production-grade APIs, microservices, or backend systems and seeing them through deployment and ongoing operation.
• Strong SQL fundamentals and hands-on relational database experience, including complex queries, indexing, schema design, and production performance troubleshooting.
• Experience designing and maintaining REST APIs, not only consuming them.
• Experience integrating with external systems and understanding retries, duplicate processing, failure handling, unreliable dependencies.
• Working knowledge of distributed systems concepts including asynchronous processing, message queues, retries, consistency, and failure recovery.
• Understanding of caching, including what to cache, where caching should occur, and how invalidation is handled.
• Experience with message queues or asynchronous processing technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, or equivalent.
• Experience with Redis or another caching technology.
• Experience with Azure or another major cloud provider, deploying and debugging, using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Git and modern code review workflows.
• Understanding of secure coding fundamentals including authentication and authorization, secrets handling, injection risks, and data exposure.
• Experience working with production systems beyond simply writing code, including monitoring metrics, investigating performance, responding to failures, and improving systems after issues occur.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to document decisions, explain tradeoffs, write clear PRs and design notes, and raise blockers early.
• A collaborative and curious approach, with the willingness to contribute ideas, ask questions, accept feedback, and work across component boundaries when needed.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production backend services using Python and Node.js/NestJS
• Design, build, and maintain REST APIs and integrations with internal and external systems
• Work with PostgreSQL in production, including schema design, complex queries, indexing, connection management, and performance tuning
• Build and support asynchronous workflows using message queues and distributed system patterns
• Apply caching strategies across application and data layers, including understanding cache invalidation and performance tradeoffs
• Take features and integrations through the full software development lifecycle, including development, testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and iteration
• Containerize and deploy services using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
• Monitor production systems using logs, dashboards, metrics, and other observability tools to understand reliability, throughput, and performance
• Diagnose and resolve production issues, including failures across APIs, integrations, queues, databases, and multi‑service workflows
• Contribute to secure development practices including authentication, authorization, secrets handling, and protection against common application vulnerabilities
• Work closely with senior engineers on technical design and architecture decisions while progressively taking greater ownership
• Identify opportunities to improve code, reliability, performance, engineering processes, and system design rather than only executing assigned work
• Collaborate with Engineering, Security, Customer Success, Product, and other teams as our platform continues to scale

Skills

Python

Node.js/NestJS

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Git

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Gather AI is hiring an SDE II, Full Stack for our India-based team, fully remote. You’ll build and run the web platforms behind Gather AI’s products - Drone Vision, MHE Vision and SAGE, from customer-facing dashboards down to the APIs, Integration layers and data pipelines that serve them.

This is a fully remote, hands-on engineering role for someone early in their career who already has experience building production software and wants broader ownership.