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 strong, 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 up-to-date 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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