Senior Backend Platform Engineer - AI-Driven & Scalable

MaintainX; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

MaintainX, part of Autodesk, is hiring for its Platform Engineering Backend team to design and maintain the internal developer platform. You will work on backend foundations, tooling, and AI-enabled workflows to accelerate engineers across the organization.

Ideal candidates have a strong background in distributed systems, Node.js/TypeScript, GraphQL at scale, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD, with a product mindset and excellent English communication for leadership across teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of distributed systems experience.
• Expert in Node.js, TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Proficient designing, maintaining, and evolving GraphQL APIs at scale.
• Strong AI mindset.
• Good knowledge of cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• A product mindset: ability to build a platform with and for internal customers.
• Expert level of English, both spoken and written, to lead platform engineering managers and align with executives.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend foundations and tooling powering our internal developer platform.
• Bring AI native and add on workflows into your daily work and into the platform.
• Raise engineering excellence standards.
• Lead to the consolidation and evolution of platform primitives: developer portal, local development, domain-service templates and scaffolders, graphQL, event-driven, openAPI golden paths and CI/CD workflows.
• Collaborate with other platform teams and product development teams on defining and adopting the internal developer platform.

Skills

Distributed systems

Node.js/TypeScript

GraphQL

AI mindset

Cloud & CI/CD

Product mindset

English proficiency

Job description

MaintainX, part of Autodesk, is hiring for its Platform Engineering Backend team to design and maintain the internal developer platform. You will work on backend foundations, tooling, and AI-enabled workflows to accelerate engineers across the organization.

Ideal candidates have a strong background in distributed systems, Node.js/TypeScript, GraphQL at scale, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD, with a product mindset and excellent English communication for leadership across teams.