Senior Platform Backend Engineer – AI & GraphQL

MaintainX; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

MaintainX is expanding its Backend team within the Platform Engineering division to build and maintain the internal developer platform. The role focuses on designing scalable backend foundations, integrating AI-native workflows, and raising engineering standards.

Ideal candidates have strong experience with distributed systems, Node.js/TypeScript, and GraphQL APIs. You will collaborate with multiple teams to define platform primitives and CI/CD practices that scale as the company grows.

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 and ability to apply AI thinking to platform design.
• Good knowledge of cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend foundations and tooling powering our internal developer platform.
• Bring AI native and add on workflows into 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 infrastructure

CI/CD pipelines

Product mindset

Job description

MaintainX is expanding its Backend team within the Platform Engineering division to build and maintain the internal developer platform. The role focuses on designing scalable backend foundations, integrating AI-native workflows, and raising engineering standards.

Ideal candidates have strong experience with distributed systems, Node.js/TypeScript, and GraphQL APIs. You will collaborate with multiple teams to define platform primitives and CI/CD practices that scale as the company grows.