Senior AI Backend Engineer - Scalable, Remote

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 143,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Competitive salary

Professional growth

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Senior Backend Developer, AI Systems to join a leader in the Enterprise Technology space. You will shape the evolution of a high-scale personalization and recommendations platform using a modern distributed backend architecture and partner closely with ML engineers to translate requirements into reliable, performant systems. Location: Remote.

Compensation: $143,000 – $200,000 annually. The role emphasizes ownership across design, delivery, incident response, and continuous

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience focused on distributed systems.
• Deep experience building and operating large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Python and modern CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architectural evolution of the core recommendations pipeline to a modern distributed architecture.
• Design, build, and operate scalable backend services for personalization at scale.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and reliability risks.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to translate requirements into technical designs.
• Own key system components from architecture to incident response.
• Champion engineering best practices in system design and code quality.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of technical rigor and continuous improvement.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

System design

CI/CD practices

Technical leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Apache Spark

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Ladders is seeking a Senior Backend Developer, AI Systems to join a leader in the Enterprise Technology space. You will shape the evolution of a high-scale personalization and recommendations platform using a modern distributed backend architecture and partner closely with ML engineers to translate requirements into reliable, performant systems. Location: Remote.

Compensation: $143,000 – $200,000 annually. The role emphasizes ownership across design, delivery, incident response, and continuous