Scalable Backend Engineer for AI Platform (Equity)

Golden Gate Recruiting; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Golden Gate Recruiting partners with a fast-growing AI startup backed by Browder Capital—an early investor in Wander.com and Owner.com. We seek a Backend Engineer to design and build scalable services powering the platform.

You’ll work with Python/Go/Java, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Docker and Kubernetes, in a cloud-first environment (AWS/GCP) with Terraform, Datadog, and on-call responsibility to keep systems reliable for real customers.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Experience with at least one backend language (Python/Go/Java).
• Hands-on experience with relational or distributed databases.
• Comfort with cloud infrastructure and containerized deployments.
• Strong communication skills for a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that scale.
• Push system reliability, performance, and scalability further.
• Own data models and infrastructure decisions for core services.
• Team up with ML and product engineering on shared systems.
• Take part in an on-call rotation for production systems.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Cloud deployments

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

Golden Gate Recruiting partners with a fast-growing AI startup backed by Browder Capital—an early investor in Wander.com and Owner.com. We seek a Backend Engineer to design and build scalable services powering the platform.

You’ll work with Python/Go/Java, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Docker and Kubernetes, in a cloud-first environment (AWS/GCP) with Terraform, Datadog, and on-call responsibility to keep systems reliable for real customers.