Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Payments (Remote)

Jeeves Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jeeves seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build the backend systems powering our stablecoin-native banking platform, supporting payments, cards, spend management, and compliance for global customers.

The role focuses on backend engineering with AI tool integration, production-grade code, and secure, scalable architectures. Remote, full-time with cross-regional collaboration across LATAM and beyond.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Fluent in English — professional fluency required for daily work with global teams in written and spoken contexts.
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language: Go, Python, or Node.js/TypeScript.
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven backend systems.
• Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred): schema design, query optimization, and data modeling.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate third-party APIs reliably in production — including error handling, retry logic, and observability.
• Experience working on globally distributed teams across time zones and regions.
• Comfortable using AI tools as part of everyday engineering work — integrating LLM API outputs into backend services and using AI coding assistants fluently.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable backend services that process financial transactions and serve Jeeves customers across 20+ countries.
• Write clean, testable, production-quality code in Go, Python, or Node.js/TypeScript; participate actively in design and code reviews.
• Build and consume RESTful and GraphQL APIs; design inter-service communication using gRPC, message queues, and event-driven architectures.
• Design and optimize relational and non-relational database schemas (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) for correctness, performance, and scale.
• Own backend features end-to-end — from scoping and technical design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
• Implement security best practices: authentication, authorization, input validation, and data protection across distributed services.
• Integrate LLM API calls into backend services as product features and build AI-powered workflows.
• Instrument services with structured logging, distributed tracing, and metrics for full operational visibility.
• Participate in on-call rotation; respond to production incidents and contribute to post-incident reviews.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, compliance, and data teams across time zones and regions; communicate in English and Spanish/Portuguese as needed.

Skills

Go

Python

Node.js

REST APIs

Microservices

PostgreSQL

Cloud

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AI integration

Distributed teams

English fluency

Tools

GraphQL

gRPC

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Jeeves seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build the backend systems powering our stablecoin-native banking platform, supporting payments, cards, spend management, and compliance for global customers.

The role focuses on backend engineering with AI tool integration, production-grade code, and secure, scalable architectures. Remote, full-time with cross-regional collaboration across LATAM and beyond.