Senior Backend Engineer
Core
Design and maintain high-performance microservices and event-driven pipelines for a new conversational AI product.
Role type
Senior Backend Engineer (AI/LLM infrastructure)
Builds
Scalable backend services, real-time event pipelines, and LLM tool-calling integrations
Domain
AI & Data, Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
TypeScript, Node.js, Go, Kafka, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, REST/gRPC, Redis, OpenSearch
Preferred skills
LLM application development, tool/function calling, debugging non-deterministic AI systems
Technologies
TypeScript, Node.js, Go, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch
Responsibilities
Design and build high-performance microservices and APIs; Architect event-driven and asynchronous streaming workflows; Model and optimize relational and search data stores; Deploy and scale containerized applications on AWS; Instrument services with observability tools; Establish service boundaries and testing standards
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
