Senior Backend Engineer, AI Economics Platform

Harrison Clarke; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Harrison Clarke is partnering with a fast-growing AI company to build the backend for an enterprise AI economics platform. You will develop scalable services, APIs, and data pipelines to process AI usage, cost, and performance data.

This is a highly technical role with ownership from design to production. Ideal candidates have 8+ years in software engineering, strong backend language skills (Python/Go/Java), and a deep understanding of distributed systems, databases, and APIs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with building backend services and distributed systems.
• Experience in cloud infrastructure and deployment practices.
• Strong communication and product-focused engineering approach.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services powering the core platform.
• Build APIs and services that expose AI usage, cost, performance data.
• Develop systems handling high-volume, real-time telemetry from GenAI apps.
• Work with data pipelines and distributed systems to transform AI activity into insights.
• Own projects end-to-end from design through deployment and iteration.
• Establish engineering best practices as the team scales.

Skills

Distributed systems

APIs

System design

Tools

Python

Go

Java

Job description

Harrison Clarke is partnering with a fast-growing AI company to build the backend for an enterprise AI economics platform. You will develop scalable services, APIs, and data pipelines to process AI usage, cost, and performance data.

This is a highly technical role with ownership from design to production. Ideal candidates have 8+ years in software engineering, strong backend language skills (Python/Go/Java), and a deep understanding of distributed systems, databases, and APIs.