Senior Backend Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Hourly
Reviewed: Fri, Oct 02, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
To support the scaling of large-scale infrastructure for conversational AI, the full-time Senior/Staff Backend Engineer will design and implement efficient storage structures, scale simulation infrastructure, and own core backend services using TypeScript/Node.js and Python in a remote work environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement storage structures, query paths, and retrieval systems that operate efficiently at scale
- Scale simulation infrastructure from 30K to 200K+ concurrent calls while ensuring 99.99% uptime
- Own core backend services and improve system visibility for production issues and performance
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 5 to 15 years of experience in backend/infrastructure engineering with strong database and distributed systems experience
- Proven experience building or contributing to the storage or query layer of a database or large-scale data system
- Deep expertise in database technologies such as Postgres, Redis, Kafka, or ClickHouse
- Proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js and experience with cloud-native infrastructure, including AWS and Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of systems design and infrastructure engineering with a bias toward action
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