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Senior Backend Engineer - Remote

Jobot

Erie (Erie County)

Remote

USD 170,000 - 220,000

Full time

14 days ago

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Job summary

A leading AI startup is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to enhance their core product capabilities. This fully remote position offers a competitive salary and the chance to work on innovative backend systems within a collaborative engineering team. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in Golang and a strong background in startup environments.

Benefits

Remote flexibility
Work on greenfield projects
Collaborative engineering team
Equity options

Qualifications

  • 5–10 years of experience as a backend or backend-heavy fullstack engineer.
  • Strong experience with Golang in production.
  • Startup experience preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Work on greenfield backend systems with wide scope and autonomy.
  • Ship products used directly by enterprise customers.
  • Collaborate with a senior engineering team.

Skills

Golang
Backend Development
Cloud Infrastructure
Collaboration

Education

Degree from a top university

Tools

Postgres
GCP
Kubernetes
React
GitOps
ArgoCD
OpenAI
Anthropic

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!

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

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.
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 with a similar scale.
  • 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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Jobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide an inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity and all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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