Senior Backend Engineer - Remote

Jobot; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Remote; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI startup is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to enhance their core product capabilities. This fully remote role offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to work on innovative backend systems in a collaborative environment. Ideal candidates will have substantial experience in backend development, particularly with Golang, and a preference for startup culture.

Benefits

Remote flexibility

Work on greenfield backend systems

Collaborative engineering team

Opportunity to work in a Series A startup

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.

Skills

Golang

Backend Development

Cloud Platforms

Education

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

Tools

Postgres

GCP

Kubernetes

React

Temporal

GitOps

ArgoCD

OpenAI

Anthropic

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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
• Opportunity 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 to senior to 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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Additional Information

• Seniority level: Not Applicable
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology