Senior Backend Engineer: Go & Secure AI Platform

BluJuniper; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision benefits

Flexible work environment

Opportunity to work on advanced AI/ML

Job summary

BluJuniper is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build secure platform services for computer vision, audio ML, and NLP applications. This role focuses on backend systems across microservices, APIs, data schemas, and access control, with Go as the primary implementation language.

You will collaborate with product, AI/ML, DevOps, and security teams to deliver scalable, secure backend services and enable data sharing workflows across distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional backend or systems engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Go, C++, Java, Rust, or a similar language.
• Experience designing and operating cloud-based architectures on AWS, Azure, GCP, or similar.
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture, API design, inter-service communication, and distributed systems tradeoffs.
• Experience with data modeling, schema design, relational and/or non-relational databases.
• Experience designing authentication and authorization systems, including RBAC.
• Experience building secure backend services that support structured data exchange, schema-driven integrations, or controlled data-sharing workflows.
• Strong debugging and performance-analysis skills in production backend systems.
• Experience developing / modifying database schemas

Responsibilities

• Design and develop backend services using Go, C++, or a similar language, with primary implementation in Go.
• Integrate AI algorithms into the stack in a clean way.
• Develop user facing algorithms that make an impact.
• Build platform services that support configurable rules, workflow logic, auditability, and secure operational history.
• Develop and maintain data schemas, domain models, event structures, persistence strategies, and data access patterns across backend systems.
• Contribute to shared data exchange capabilities, including controlled data-sharing workflows and cross-environment integration patterns.
• Design service-to-service communication patterns, API contracts, event flows, and integration points between distributed services.
• Build backend infrastructure for authentication, authorization, role-based access control, and customer onboarding workflows.
• Build event-driven systems using Apache Kafka or comparable messaging technologies.
• Partner with product, frontend, AI/ML, DevOps, and security stakeholders to translate requirements into well-structured backend services.
• Improve system performance, scalability, reliability, and debuggability across production services.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, implementation planning, and security reviews.

Skills

Go

C++

Java

Rust

Microservices

AWS

API design

Distributed systems

Data modeling

RBAC

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

BluJuniper is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build secure platform services for computer vision, audio ML, and NLP applications. This role focuses on backend systems across microservices, APIs, data schemas, and access control, with Go as the primary implementation language.

You will collaborate with product, AI/ML, DevOps, and security teams to deliver scalable, secure backend services and enable data sharing workflows across distributed systems.