Senior AI Backend Engineer — Scale & Reliability (Remote)

ByteHire Limited.; New York, Boca Raton (NY, FL); On-site; USD 171,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus structure

Generous PTO

Health, dental, vision

Life and disability insurance

Professional development budget

Wellness initiatives

Job summary

ByteHire Limited. is seeking a Senior Backend AI Engineer in a remote-friendly, US-based role. You will design and operate backend systems powering AI-driven automation, focusing on scalability, reliability, and real-world impact.

You’ll build production-grade AI services and collaborate across product, data, and engineering teams. Ideal candidates have 5+ years building backend systems, experience with distributed architectures, asynchronous processing, and API design, with strong Python and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend production experience, focusing on scalable systems.
• Recent AI-powered or data-driven system exposure is required.
• Strong understanding of distributed, scalable, reliable architectures.
• Experience with asynchronous processing or event-driven systems.
• Proven ability to deliver production-ready systems end-to-end.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate backend systems powering AI-driven workflows.
• Develop production AI services with performance and reliability in mind.
• Contribute to architecture focusing on scalability and modularity.
• Optimize backend for low latency and fault tolerance.
• Implement CI/CD, testing, monitoring and deployment best practices.
• Collaborate with product, data and engineering teams on end-to-end solutions.
• Mentor engineers and uphold technical standards.
• Take ownership of services in production including monitoring and incident response.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

APIs REST/GRPC

Data pipelines

AI/ML systems

Asynchronous architectures

CI/CD

Observability

PostgreSQL

GCP

Code quality

Mentorship

Job description

ByteHire Limited. is seeking a Senior Backend AI Engineer in a remote-friendly, US-based role. You will design and operate backend systems powering AI-driven automation, focusing on scalability, reliability, and real-world impact.

You’ll build production-grade AI services and collaborate across product, data, and engineering teams. Ideal candidates have 5+ years building backend systems, experience with distributed architectures, asynchronous processing, and API design, with strong Python and