Remote Backend Engineer for AI Infrastructure – Flexible Hours

Careers; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 579,000 - 895,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Alignerr is seeking Back End Developers for a fully remote hourly contract to design, build, and optimize server-side systems powering AI products. You will work on data pipelines, model-serving infrastructure, and scalable microservices with distributed teams across time zones.

The role emphasizes robust RESTful APIs, cloud integration, and performance tuning, with a flexible 10–40 hour per week commitment and strong emphasis on asynchronous collaboration.

Qualifications

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Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust back end services, APIs, and data pipelines
• Build scalable, high-performance server-side architecture to support AI training and inference workloads
• Write clean, well-documented, and testable code following engineering best practices
• Integrate with databases, message queues, cloud services, and third-party APIs
• Optimize system performance, reliability, and scalability as usage grows
• Collaborate asynchronously with distributed teams of engineers, researchers, and product leads
• Troubleshoot production issues, conduct code reviews, and contribute to architectural decisions
• Work independently on task-based and project-based assignments on your own schedule

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Node.js

Rust

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Alignerr is seeking Back End Developers for a fully remote hourly contract to design, build, and optimize server-side systems powering AI products. You will work on data pipelines, model-serving infrastructure, and scalable microservices with distributed teams across time zones.

The role emphasizes robust RESTful APIs, cloud integration, and performance tuning, with a flexible 10–40 hour per week commitment and strong emphasis on asynchronous collaboration.