Senior Backend Engineer (Fully Remote)

Undisclosed AI Company; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Undisclosed AI Company in the United States seeks an accomplished backend engineer to design and scale the backend for our agent products. You will collaborate with ML and frontend teams to bring agents into production, while relentlessly reducing latency and improving reliability across high-volume services.

You should have 5+ years of backend engineering experience, strong API design with gRPC and REST, and deep knowledge of SQL/NoSQL schema and query tuning.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering.
• gRPC and REST API design.
• SQL and NoSQL schema and query tuning.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale the backend for agent products.
• Work with ML and frontend engineers to bring agents into production.
• Cut latency and raise reliability on high-volume services.

Skills

Backend engineering

gRPC

REST APIs

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

• Design and scale the backend for agent products
• Work with ML and frontend engineers to bring agents into production
• Cut latency and raise reliability on high-volume services

What you bring:

• 5+ years of backend engineering
• gRPC and REST API design
• SQL and NoSQL schema and query tuning

Nice to have:

• Queues and distributed orchestration
• Python with FastAPI, Flask or Django

Undisclosed AI Company

They are a late-stage, venture-backed enterprise AI company building AI agents that talk to people in real time. Their culture focuses on latency and reliability as core product features, with engineering teams owning high-volume services end to end.