Senior Backend Engineer for AI-Powered Platforms (EST)

Level AI; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Level AI in Mountain View, California, is seeking a backend engineer with 3–6 years of experience to design and build scalable services using Python, Django and FastAPI. The role focuses on RESTful APIs, real-time data processing, and data-driven features that power millions of customer interactions.

You will collaborate across teams in an agile environment, work in EST to support US customers, and contribute to database design, streaming systems, and ML-enabled search.

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level engineering degree or higher from a top engineering institute.
• 3–6 years of backend experience with strong Python background.
• Experience with Django is highly desirable.
• Experience with FastAPI, MongoDB, real-time or streaming backends, and LLM-backed search/RAG is a plus.
• Strong understanding of relational databases, data management, and REST API design.

Responsibilities

• Innovate, build, and invent on behalf of customers, planning and maintaining product features used by millions.
• Design and code robust solutions starting from broadly defined problems.
• Drive best practices and engineering excellence across the team.
• Collaborate with teammates to design architecture of new and current systems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality product.
• Engage with customers to address their issues and gather feedback.

Skills

Python

Django

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

SQL

MongoDB

ETL

REST APIs

WebSockets

gRPC

Redis

Celery

CI/CD

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

NLP

Algorithms

Data Structures

OOP

Education

B.E./B.Tech./M.E./M.Tech

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Level AI in Mountain View, California, is seeking a backend engineer with 3–6 years of experience to design and build scalable services using Python, Django and FastAPI. The role focuses on RESTful APIs, real-time data processing, and data-driven features that power millions of customer interactions.

You will collaborate across teams in an agile environment, work in EST to support US customers, and contribute to database design, streaming systems, and ML-enabled search.