Remote Staff Backend Engineer - AI Health Tech, Equity

Zest for Tech; United States; On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Flexible work arrangements

Generous time off policy

Learning budget

Job summary

Zest for Tech is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to work remotely in the United States, shaping system design and building production-ready AI-enabled software at a pivotal growth stage.

You’ll design scalable backend services in Python, create robust APIs (REST and GraphQL), and mentor teams while maintaining reliability, performance, and developer experience across boundary lines.

Qualifications

• Production-grade software design and operation experience.
• Strong backend engineering skills with Python as a primary language.
• Proven experience designing APIs (REST/GraphQL) and service-oriented architectures.
• Background working with distributed systems and cloud platforms (GCP or similar).
• Confidence designing systems that handle concurrency, scale, and operational reliability.
• Sound engineering judgment around testing strategies, performance trade-offs, and system resilience.
• Experience influencing technical decisions beyond your immediate scope or team.
• Comfort working in environments where requirements evolve and solutions emerge through discovery.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve backend systems that scale with real users, high traffic, and real world constraints.
• Shape technical direction by proposing architectures, abstractions, and service boundaries that create long term leverage.
• Take loosely defined problems and turn them into clear, testable solutions through iteration and experimentation.
• Build and refine APIs and services that support complex workflows and data-driven products.
• Work across system boundaries when needed from infrastructure and reliability to developer experience and product flows.
• Set a high bar for engineering quality through hands-on contribution, review, and technical leadership.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

API design

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Technical leadership

Tools

REST

GraphQL

Job description

Zest for Tech is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to work remotely in the United States, shaping system design and building production-ready AI-enabled software at a pivotal growth stage.

You’ll design scalable backend services in Python, create robust APIs (REST and GraphQL), and mentor teams while maintaining reliability, performance, and developer experience across boundary lines.