Staff Backend Engineer, AI Ops & Scale (Remote)

Jobgether; United States; Remote; USD 222,000 - 314,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

Paid time off

Remote-first environment

Gym stipend

Phone bill stipend

Continuing education credits

Medical insurance for individuals &amp

Job summary

Jobgether partner seeks a Staff Backend Engineer, Operations in the United States to lead scalable backend infrastructure and production-grade LLM-powered workflows. You will design architectures for processing huge data and making high-stakes insurance decisions, with ownership across engineering, product, and business teams.

You will mentor engineers, influence technical strategy, and advance AI-driven operations while delivering impactful features and maintaining robust systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating backend systems at scale.
• Led at least one significant project or initiative as technical lead.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs in production and scaling them.
• Strong Python proficiency; other OO languages welcomed.
• Experience with AWS, Lambda, Step Functions, asynchronous workflows.
• Relational DBs with performance focus, PostgreSQL ideal.
• Trusted technical resource for engineers, product, and stakeholders.
• Strong ownership and execution, minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication to justify technical decisions.
• Proactive, experimental mindset solving hard problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend initiatives: services, data models, pipelines, evaluation frameworks.
• Define direction for large-scale LLM systems balancing reliability and cost.
• Drive architectural decisions across the product.
• Deliver product improvements and scope new features.
• Manage technical debt while balancing rapid delivery and long-term quality.
• Collaborate with product and business to balance data and resources.
• Promote best practices in development, testing, deployment, review.
• Identify opportunities to improve product quality and testing.
• Mentor colleagues and participate in recruiting and external interactions.
• Leverage AI-powered tools to boost team productivity.

Skills

Python

LLMs in production

AWS

Serverless (Lambda/Step Functions)

Relational databases (PostgreSQL)

Technical leadership

Excellent communication

Tools

AWS Lambda

Step Functions

Job description

Jobgether partner seeks a Staff Backend Engineer, Operations in the United States to lead scalable backend infrastructure and production-grade LLM-powered workflows. You will design architectures for processing huge data and making high-stakes insurance decisions, with ownership across engineering, product, and business teams.

You will mentor engineers, influence technical strategy, and advance AI-driven operations while delivering impactful features and maintaining robust systems.