Senior AI-Driven Backend Engineer (Remote)

Postscript; United States; Remote; USD 175,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Remote work (US/Canada)

Flexible paid time off

Health, dental, vision insurance

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Postscript is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own meaningful systems end-to-end on one of our core teams. This fully remote role can be based in the US or Canada and emphasizes AI-first development, high autonomy, and building scalable backend services.

You will design and maintain REST APIs, drive architectural improvements, and collaborate asynchronously with product, data, and go-to-market teams while advancing resilience and observability with tools like Datadog, AWS, Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building large-scale backend systems and APIs.
• An active daily user of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or equivalent) and can speak concretely to how they've changed your output and your workflow.
• Tech stack: Python, Go, React, and TypeScript; experience with Kubernetes, AWS, Datadog, and relational/NoSQL databases.
• Run agentic workflows autonomously and concurrently.
• Follow the AI tooling landscape closely: new model releases, emerging agentic workflows, and evolving best practices.
• Think critically about AI output and how to verify what it produces.
• Able to context switch across concurrent workstreams.
• Experience on 0-to-1 initiatives and complex existing systems.
• Strong command of relational and NoSQL databases, SQL, and thoughtful database modeling.
• Familiarity building and observing applications on AWS, and with Datadog or comparable observability tooling.
• Clear, direct communication—cross-functional partners and async teams can count on you to surface information proactively.
• Strong instincts for technical tradeoffs informed by engineering best practices and business priorities.

Responsibilities

• Take deep ownership of systems and product areas on your team — becoming the go-to technical expert for what you own.
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• Independently investigate, design, and execute solutions across distributed systems with a high degree of ambiguity.
• Architect, build, and maintain highly available, scalable REST APIs and backend services for internal and external use.
• Drive system decoupling, modularization, and technical debt reduction — improving long-term maintainability without blocking near-term delivery.
• Build agentically as your default: leveraging concurrent autonomous agent workflows, owning the output, and keeping a steady queue of aligned work moving.
• Stay at the forefront of emerging AI tooling and practices, bringing new techniques back to the team and helping raise the floor for how Postscript engineers work.
• Contribute to how we think about integrating AI into our systems and workflows — not just using AI tools, but helping shape where AI creates leverage across the engineering org.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, data, and go-to-market teams — communicating clearly and proactively in an async-first environment.
• Identify and eliminate single points of failure, improving system resilience and knowledge redundancy across your team.
• Improve how engineering gets done: bring better tools, fix workflow friction, build internal utilities when the leverage compounds.

Skills

Backend systems

APIs

AI coding tools

Python

Go

React

TypeScript

Kubernetes

AWS

Datadog

SQL

NoSQL

Database modeling

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Datadog

SQL

NoSQL

REST APIs

Job description

Postscript is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own meaningful systems end-to-end on one of our core teams. This fully remote role can be based in the US or Canada and emphasizes AI-first development, high autonomy, and building scalable backend services.

You will design and maintain REST APIs, drive architectural improvements, and collaborate asynchronously with product, data, and go-to-market teams while advancing resilience and observability with tools like Datadog, AWS, Kubernetes.