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Senior AI Backend Engineer
RemoteFull-timeAI EngineeringHR Technology
Build production-grade backend features and AI products for a global HR and payroll platform. Use AI coding tools to accelerate development while applying strong engineering judgment, quality standards, and end-to-end ownership. This is a remote role.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, designers, and QA to scope requirements and deliver features.
- Use Claude and other AI coding tools to accelerate development, reviewing generated code before release.
- Build and ship AI products, workflows, agents, backend features, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
- Contribute technical input throughout the software development lifecycle, including architecture, design, and deployment decisions.
- Own features end to end: design, develop, test, deploy, monitor, and iterate.
- Debug production issues, improve performance, and maintain quality, reliability, and security.
- Communicate technical constraints, decisions, progress, and blockers to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Consider infrastructure costs, resource use, and development efficiency.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of backend or software engineering experience, including shipping AI products or features to production.
- Experience developing with Node.js or Python and writing clean, maintainable code.
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, with strong PostgreSQL and ORM experience.
- Hands-on experience using Claude to build and ship production features; able to review generated code critically and choose when to use AI.
- Understanding of code review, testing, deployment, secure coding, data handling, and operational responsibility.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including experience collaborating asynchronously with distributed teams.
Benefits
- Stock grant opportunities, subject to role, employment status, and location
- Benefits and perks that vary by employment status and country
- Remote work flexibility and optional office membership