Senior Backend Engineer — Scalable AI Platform (Async)

triggerdev; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office equipment support

Annual training budget

Company pension contributions

Equity

Job summary

triggerdev is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to shape and grow both open source and cloud versions of a platform that runs production AI agents and workflows. The role blends hands-on engineering with strategic influence on architecture and roadmap.

You will design end-to-end backend features, craft scalable data schemas, and optimize performance for high-throughput production workloads, while upholding security and observability standards.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript.
• Strong background with Postgres and Redis, including schema design and query tuning.
• Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Comfort participating in an on-call rotation as part of shared reliability ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship SDK and platform features end-to-end, from API surface through production rollout.
• Develop database schemas and data models that hold up as usage scales.
• Tune query performance and shape efficient data access patterns.
• Build backend systems that meet production standards for reliability, throughput, and durability.
• Design and implement API endpoints and services that handle real customer traffic.
• Apply security best practices as a default in every piece of work shipped.
• Implement observability tooling for monitoring, logging, and rapid debugging.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and help shape where the platform goes next.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Redis

Schema design

Query tuning

Production operations

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

triggerdev is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to shape and grow both open source and cloud versions of a platform that runs production AI agents and workflows. The role blends hands-on engineering with strategic influence on architecture and roadmap.

You will design end-to-end backend features, craft scalable data schemas, and optimize performance for high-throughput production workloads, while upholding security and observability standards.