Senior Backend & AI Engineer
Employment Type: Full-time
Location: Remote (PST Timezone Preferred)
Experience: 5+ years

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Backend & AI Engineer who is highly hands-on, technically robust, and deeply experienced in building with AI.
This is an all-rounder engineering role for someone who can take ownership of a problem from technical design through development, testing, deployment, and iteration. You should be comfortable building robust backend systems while also working extensively with modern AI technologies.
We’re particularly interested in engineers who have experience in startups, high-growth environments, or fast-moving technology teams, where ownership, speed, and the ability to figure things out independently are essential.

What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and maintain robust backend systems and APIs
- Build and integrate AI-powered features, products, and workflows
- Work extensively with LLMs, AI APIs, agents, RAG, automation, and tool/function calling
- Design scalable databases, backend architectures, and services




- Integrate third-party APIs and external services
- Own features end-to-end, from architecture and development through testing and production
- Debug, optimize, and improve existing systems
- Use AI-assisted development tools extensively to improve engineering speed and productivity
- Evaluate emerging AI tools and technologies and determine where they can provide practical value
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and other teams as needed
- Work across the stack when required

What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals
- Proven experience building APIs, backend services, databases, and integrations
- Significant hands-on experience with AI/LLM technologies
- Experience building production AI features, not simply experimenting with AI tools
- Strong familiarity with AI-assisted software development
- Experience with A

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