Remote Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Workflows

Ontrac Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Ontrac Solutions is seeking an experienced backend engineer to build an AI-powered platform on Go, deployed on AWS. You will read and extend existing production code, implement metadata proposals, automated ownership reassignments, and inventory tooling across production and endpoint environments through a robust API.

You will own AI-driven workflows, design scalable services with PostgreSQL and MongoDB, collaborate with program and customer teams in an Agile setup, and help refactor legacy code

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional backend software engineering.
• Go as a working language with scalable backend services and APIs.
• PostgreSQL schema design and real querying.
• MongoDB schema design and real querying.
• AWS services and client libraries.
• Agentic, AI-driven workflows you have designed, implemented, and tuned.
• Asset discovery/ingestion tooling for aggregating cloud resources and metadata.
• Data classification standards, dependency mapping, functional framework mapping.
• Navigating a large, unfamiliar codebase to refactor or decommission legacy code without regressing behavior.
• Unit and integration testing for backend components (standard practice).
• Agile/Scrum delivery with sprints, stand-ups, retrospectives.

Responsibilities

• AI-suggested metadata engine across active projects.
• Automated ownership reassignment and deprecation logic.
• Agent and MCP inventory across production and endpoint environments.
• First-party product inventory and critical-user-journey mapping.
• Legacy refactoring and decommissioning with tests.
• Sprint delivery alongside program and customer teams.

Skills

Go

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

AWS

AI-driven workflows

Asset discovery / ingestion tooling

Data classification standards

Codebase navigation

Unit and integration testing

Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CloudQuery

Job description

Ontrac Solutions is seeking an experienced backend engineer to build an AI-powered platform on Go, deployed on AWS. You will read and extend existing production code, implement metadata proposals, automated ownership reassignments, and inventory tooling across production and endpoint environments through a robust API.

You will own AI-driven workflows, design scalable services with PostgreSQL and MongoDB, collaborate with program and customer teams in an Agile setup, and help refactor legacy code