Senior Backend Engineer: Scalable APIs & AI Tools

Vogo; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + equity

Top-tier laptop provided

100% company-paid health benefits for基

401(k) with company match

Annual wellness stipend

Monthly house cleaning stipend

Annual travel allowance

Monthly cell phone & internet stipend

Job summary

Vogo is seeking a versatile, highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer to join our engineering organization. In this role, you’ll help ensure high performance, reliability, and scalability, and contribute to the architecture and direction of our systems.

Our backend systems are the backbone of the traveler experience, and this role plays a critical part in scaling our platform to support millions of users and high-volume transactions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Strong experience with Node.js and PostgreSQL (or equivalent relational databases).
• Strong SQL skills - write, debug, optimize complex queries on large datasets.
• Demonstrated AI fluency — actively uses AI tools in day-to-day engineering work.
• Experience on high-volume, consumer-facing platforms.
• Solid understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, and scalability principles.
• Experience with DevOps practices and cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS), including CI/CD, monitoring, and IaC.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a self-driven ownership mentality.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and implement robust APIs and services using Node.js, PostgreSQL, and Redis.
• Optimize complex SQL queries and schemas for large datasets with fast performance.
• Leverage AI coding tools as part of development workflow and integrate AI features.
• Tackle high-scale engineering challenges to ensure reliability under heavy traffic.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and leadership to build backend features.
• Lead refactoring projects to future-proof the stack and reduce technical debt.
• Participate in standups, code reviews, and deployment processes.
• Mentor engineers to raise technical standards and practices.
• Take ownership of projects from concept to production and releases.

Skills

Node.js

PostgreSQL

SQL

AI fluency

High-volume platforms

DevOps & cloud

Collaboration

Entrepreneurial mindset

Tools

Redis

Job description

Vogo is seeking a versatile, highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer to join our engineering organization. In this role, you’ll help ensure high performance, reliability, and scalability, and contribute to the architecture and direction of our systems.

Our backend systems are the backbone of the traveler experience, and this role plays a critical part in scaling our platform to support millions of users and high-volume transactions.