Senior Backend Engineer: Scalable Microservices & AI

Awake Solutions; United States; Hybrid; USD 1,000 - 1,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cloud credits

Learning budget

Flexible remote or hybrid

Full-time position

Job summary

Awake Solutions is seeking a backend engineer to design and operate high-throughput services powering web traffic and AI workloads. You will focus on reliability, scale, and developer productivity, partnering with infrastructure and ML teams.

Responsibilities include building scalable microservices in Python/Go/Java, tuning performance and caching, and implementing observability for production health. A flexible remote or hybrid setup is offered.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend engineering experience in production systems.
• Hands-on with distributed systems, message queues, and caching strategies.
• Comfort with cloud-native patterns and Kubernetes.
• Strong debugging and systems-thinking approach.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship scalable microservices and APIs using Python, Go, or Java.
• Tune systems for performance, caching, and database scalability across SQL and NoSQL.
• Build observability, distributed tracing, and error-handling patterns for production health.
• Partner with ML teams to design model inference pipelines.
• Contribute to architectural decisions around distributed systems and data flow.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Caching

Debugging

Tools

Go

Python

Java

Job description

Awake Solutions is seeking a backend engineer to design and operate high-throughput services powering web traffic and AI workloads. You will focus on reliability, scale, and developer productivity, partnering with infrastructure and ML teams.

Responsibilities include building scalable microservices in Python/Go/Java, tuning performance and caching, and implementing observability for production health. A flexible remote or hybrid setup is offered.