Remote Senior Backend Architect for AI-Driven Systems

Socket.dev; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking an experienced backend-focused software engineer to join our Services team. You’ll design and build shared backend services and APIs powering multiple tools, with ownership end-to-end.

This US-based remote role requires strong architectural thinking, cross-stack capability, and a track record of building reusable, scalable systems using AI-assisted development. You’ll collaborate in small pods, emphasize pragmatic design, and balance speed with long-term maintainability

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong backend and full-stack capability.
• Experience designing service-oriented or distributed systems.
• Familiarity with domain-driven design (DDD) principles.
• Exceptional systems thinking and ability to model complex domains.
• Experience deploying and operating applications in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Solid understanding of the full SDLC.
• Deep experience with AI coding tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and build shared backend services and APIs used across multiple systems.
• Define service boundaries, contracts, and data models.
• Own the full SDLC: design, development, testing, deployment, and iteration.
• Contribute to domain modeling and system design decisions.
• Ensure services are scalable, reliable, and reusable.
• Improve system cohesion and reduce duplication across tools and products.
• Use AI tools to accelerate development while maintaining high code quality.
• Balance speed with long-term maintainability and extensibility.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems design

DDD principles

Cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP)

AI coding tools

SDLC knowledge

Systems thinking

Full-stack capability

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD

REST API design

GraphQL

Kafka

SQS

SQL/NoSQL data modeling

Observability tooling

Python

TypeScript

Go

Rust

Job description

Socket.dev is seeking an experienced backend-focused software engineer to join our Services team. You’ll design and build shared backend services and APIs powering multiple tools, with ownership end-to-end.

This US-based remote role requires strong architectural thinking, cross-stack capability, and a track record of building reusable, scalable systems using AI-assisted development. You’ll collaborate in small pods, emphasize pragmatic design, and balance speed with long-term maintainability