Senior Backend Engineer - Remote

Jobot; Charlotte (NC); Remote; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading Series A AI startup as a Senior Backend Engineer, working remotely to enhance enterprise law firms' deal processes. This role offers competitive compensation, equity, and the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies like Golang and Kubernetes in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Remote flexibility

Work on greenfield backend systems

Collaborative engineering team

Opportunity in a recently funded startup

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience as a backend or backend-heavy fullstack engineer.
• Strong experience with Golang in production.
• Strong progression from mid → senior → staff roles within ~3 years per level.

Responsibilities

• Expand core product capabilities in a legal AI startup.
• Work on greenfield backend systems with wide scope and autonomy.
• Ship products used directly by enterprise customers.

Skills

Golang

Backend Development

Cloud Platforms

Education

Degree from a top university

Tools

Postgres

GCP

Kubernetes

React

Job description

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Base pay range

$170,000.00/yr - $220,000.00/yr

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Job details

100% remote role working at a Series A AI startup!

This Jobot Job is hosted by Brandon Bays

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Salary $170,000 - $220,000 per year

A Bit About Us

Location Remote (United States - prefer EST or CST time zone but open to any time zone for the right candidate)

Compensation $170–220K base + equity (0.5–0.7%)

Employment Type Full-time

We’re working with a stealthy, fast-moving legal AI startup that’s making major strides in modernizing enterprise law firms' deal processes through powerful backend infrastructure and cutting-edge AI integration. With over $1M ARR in the last five months, Series A funding, and an elite team of 20 (including 9 engineers), they’re now hiring Senior Backend Engineers to expand their core product capabilities.

Tech Stack Golang, Postgres, GCP, Kubernetes, React, Temporal, GitOps, ArgoCD, OpenAI, Anthropic



Why join us?

• Remote flexibility
• Work on greenfield backend systems with wide scope and autonomy.
• Ship products used directly by enterprise customers.
• Join a senior, collaborative engineering team focused on pragmatic execution.
• Chance to work in a Series A recently funded startup.
  
  

Job Details

Ideal Background

5–10 years of experience as a backend or backend-heavy fullstack engineer.

Strong experience with Golang in production.

Startup experience preferred, ideally at a company

Strong progression from mid → senior → staff roles within ~3 years per level.

Preferably from a top university (e.g., U.S. Top 50 overall)

Based in EST or CST time zones preferred, but flexible.

Not a Fit If

• Frontend-heavy or frontend-only engineers.
• Only large-company experience with no startup/small team exposure.
• Consulting/outsourced backgrounds (e.g., Infosys, Capgemini, etc.).
• Bootcamp-only education or less than 3 years experience.
  
  

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

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