Senior Backend Engineer, AI Platform & LLM Infra

Thornbury Musical Theatre Group; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Thornbury Musical Theatre Group is seeking a backend engineer to help build and scale an LLM-powered platform for millions of users. You will work closely with the platform architect, drive core AI infrastructure, and help shape engineering practices as the team expands.

The role requires expertise in Go, Python, and microservice design, with a focus on robust API development and scalable data stores. This is a high-impact opportunity in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering in a statically typed language.
• Shipped production LLM-backed features and lived with them after launch.
• Strong API design instincts and comfortable owning a service end to end.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the platform architect to bring deep, hands-on LLM-stack expertise.
• The work is greenfield: stand up core AI infrastructure for a platform with millions of active users.
• Shape engineering practices as the team grows.

Skills

Backend engineering

Statically typed languages

API design

LLM features

Tools

Go

Ruby on Rails

Python

React/TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Redis

RabbitMQ

Job description

Thornbury Musical Theatre Group is seeking a backend engineer to help build and scale an LLM-powered platform for millions of users. You will work closely with the platform architect, drive core AI infrastructure, and help shape engineering practices as the team expands.

The role requires expertise in Go, Python, and microservice design, with a focus on robust API development and scalable data stores. This is a high-impact opportunity in a fast-paced environment.