Senior Backend Engineer — Scalable AI Platform

Applied Intuition; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 187,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Intuition is seeking a software engineer to design, develop, and maintain secure backend platform infrastructure and tooling that supports deployment, authentication, and APIs. You will build distributed systems that accelerate application development across the organization and architect extensible plugin systems.

Responsibilities include creating cross‑platform desktop infrastructure, robust auth systems, and automated testing strategies.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in CS, EE, or ME.
• At least 1 year of software engineer experience at a tech company.
• Experience with Python, Golang, TS/JS, SQL, Flask, Node.js/Express.js, PostgreSQL/MySQL, React.js, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS and GCP, GitHub, OAuth 2.0, and Load Balancing.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend platform infrastructure, abstractions, and tooling for deployment, authentication, and API services.
• Build and optimize distributed systems enabling rapid application development and deployment.
• Architect and implement plugin systems and extensibility frameworks.
• Create and maintain cross‑platform desktop application infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Design and implement authentication/authorization systems and testing strategies; evaluate and maintain auth solutions.
• Engage with external customers to gather feedback on platform capabilities.
• Document platform features, APIs, and best practices for users.
• Implement observability with logging, metrics, and tracing; monitor performance and reliability.
• Participate in on‑call rotations and post‑incident reviews to improve resilience.

Skills

Master's degree in Computer Science, E

Education

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Python

Golang

TypeScript/JavaScript

SQL

Flask

Node.js/Express.js

PostgreSQL/MySQL

React.js

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

GitHub

OAuth 2.0

Load Balancing

Job description

Applied Intuition is seeking a software engineer to design, develop, and maintain secure backend platform infrastructure and tooling that supports deployment, authentication, and APIs. You will build distributed systems that accelerate application development across the organization and architect extensible plugin systems.

Responsibilities include creating cross‑platform desktop infrastructure, robust auth systems, and automated testing strategies.