Backend Software Engineer

About the RoleJoin our pioneering team at vooma as a Backend & Infrastructure Software Engineer, where you will play a critical role in shaping the technical infrastructure of a transformative company.If you are passionate about creating not only resilient systems but also the foundational architecture of a groundbreaking enterprise from the outset, this pos…

We are seeking a passionate Backend Infrastructure Software Engineer who embraces complex challenges and is eager to explore innovative solutions. In this role, you will take charge of the systems that facilitate the ingestion, storage, and serving of data at scale, significantly contributing to the reliability and performance of our backend infrastructure.Our data pipeline serves as the foundation for our operations. As we strive to enhance ingestion throughput, query performance, and storage efficiency, we need a skilled engineer like you to accelerate our progress and help us achieve our goals with intelligence and reliability.

Join a Transformative Force in TechnologyAt Palantir, we create groundbreaking software that revolutionizes data-driven decision-making and operational efficiency. Our platforms enable partners to combat critical challenges—from developing life-saving medical treatments to predicting supply chain disruptions and locating missing persons.Position OverviewAs a Backend Software Engineer at Palantir, you will play an essential role in shaping how organizations leverage data. You will be engaged in all stages of the product lifecycle, from ideation and design to prototyping and final deployment. Collaborating with both technical and non-technical team members, you will gain insights into customer challenges and develop innovative solutions. We promote cross-team collaboration, allowing you to expand your knowledge across various technologies and product facets. You will work autonomously and make impactful decisions within a supportive community that fosters your growth into a technical leader.Our Product Development teams are composed of small, focused groups of Software Engineers, each dedicated to distinct aspects of our offerings. The infrastructure teams are tasked with fortifying the foundational layers of our software stack, emphasizing database technologies, distributed systems, large-scale data architectures, security, and application infrastructure. In this role, you will write robust code that supports Palantir Foundry and Gotham, ensuring high performance, security, and scalability for products utilized by key public and private sector institutions. You will be instrumental in building the core capabilities that empower research scientists, aerospace engineers, intelligence analysts, and economic forecasters worldwide.We seek engineers who are driven by a passion for solving real-world challenges, enabling both developers and end-users to maximize their productivity. If you are eager to create reliable, high-performing, and scalable systems, and to design resilient APIs, this opportunity allows you to make a substantial impact on our products and the communities we serve.

Join Palantir Technologies as a Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in Infrastructure. In this pivotal role, you will work at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure systems, contributing to the design and implementation of scalable backend solutions that empower organizations to make data-driven decisions.

RoleJoin us as a Software Engineer specializing in Backend and Infrastructure, where you will develop the essential backend systems that drive our revolutionary medical AI platform, utilized by healthcare professionals across the globe. You will take charge of architecting and scaling critical systems, ensuring service reliability and robust data platforms while having the autonomy to influence performance, security, and infrastructure design for sensitive medical data.We value exceptional builders who break free from conventional paths. Our engineers engage across various products and projects, taking ownership of their contributions to maximize impact.About UsOpenEvidence stands as the leading medical AI platform worldwide. Our platform's adoption has skyrocketed, with over 40% of US clinicians embracing our solutions within just a year, driven by organic product-led growth. As a $12 billion company with a talented 30-member engineering team sourced from MIT, Harvard, and Stanford, we believe that transformative products arise from a small cadre of exceptional, autonomous builders, united under focused objectives and empowered to drive individual ownership and rapid execution. We are expanding our team to capture a unique opportunity to establish the definitive platform for medical AI.If you are an extraordinary engineer or scientist eager to push the boundaries of innovation and create tangible outcomes that affect the lives of millions, we want to connect with you.CultureWe believe in a work ethic that embodies world-class standards. The journey from 0 to 1 and then scaling to 1000 is akin to professional sports, where uncompromising excellence is our benchmark. We are convinced that groundbreaking technologies can only be built through end-to-end ownership, where significant achievements occur when an individual commits to making them happen.Who You AreThis position is not for those seeking a standard 9-5 job to simply complete tasks or for those focused solely on academic pursuits. If you are ready to dive in, embrace challenges, and create something impactful from scratch, influencing countless lives and generating significant revenue, this role could be your calling.The ideal candidate is a remarkable builder: intelligent, driven, resourceful, autonomous, detail-oriented, and motivated while maintaining a low-ego. Does that sound rare? It is! We have identified only 30 such individuals, and we are on the lookout for more.LocationThis full-time role requires in-person attendance five days a week in Miami.

Biotechnology is transforming our world, influencing everything from the medicines we consume to the crops we cultivate and the materials we utilize daily. To keep pace with the rapid advancements in science, we require cutting-edge technology.At Benchling, our mission is to harness the potential of biotechnology. The most pioneering biotech firms rely on Benchling’s R&D Cloud to facilitate the creation of innovative products and accelerate their journey to milestones and market readiness.Join us in bringing state-of-the-art software solutions to the forefront of modern science.ROLE OVERVIEWWe are seeking a talented Backend Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team, where you will build and maintain the foundational platform that powers our product offerings. This role spans various infrastructure disciplines, including cloud infrastructure on AWS, services based on Kubernetes, and the operational tools necessary to ensure system reliability. Collaboration is key as you will work closely with product engineering teams to better understand their requirements and enhance the developer experience throughout Benchling.We are looking for a motivated early-career engineer with strong foundational skills and a desire to grow. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic about learning, eager to contribute across diverse areas, and ready to take on increasing responsibilities. Given our operation in a regulated environment, your work will focus on building reliable, secure, and auditable systems.RESPONSIBILITIESDevelop, sustain, and enhance core infrastructure and platform services utilized by our product engineering teams.Collaborate with product teams to establish requirements, design efficient pathways, and minimize deployment and operational challenges.Contribute to our Kubernetes-based platform, including service configuration, traffic management, and platform tooling.Design and manage AWS infrastructure and automation, emphasizing scalability, cost efficiency, and resilience.Enhance observability and operational readiness through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alert systems.Engage in an on-call rotation, manage incident responses, and drive process improvements to avert future occurrences.Produce clear technical documentation and engage in design discussions and reviews; focus on incremental system improvements for maintainability and reliability.

About UsAt Credal, we are committed to leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies to empower those who are dedicated to shaping a brighter future.Our platform accelerates the complex operations of leading institutions while embedding robust security and governance at every level of our offerings. Our esteemed clientele includes the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, MongoDB, Comcast NBC Universal, Lattice, Wise (formerly TransferWise), Checkr, and incident.io, among others.With over $10 million in funding secured, we have ample runway to support our ambitious goals. Join a team of Thoughtful Doers™ hailing from top-tier companies such as Palantir, Cruise, Meta, Uber, and Google. Credal operates in-person from our spacious NYC office, complete with meals provided.

The OpportunityAre you a seasoned Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure) eager to drive transformative change at the convergence of scalable web services and state-of-the-art AI technologies? Join us at Otter.ai, where we are on the lookout for a skilled engineer to spearhead the development, deployment, and oversight of web services and infrastructure that fuel our AI-driven products and initiatives. In our vibrant engineering team, you will collaborate closely with AI researchers, product managers, and technology experts to deliver innovative solutions that significantly enhance the experiences of end-user professionals and enterprise clients across various sectors.Your ImpactUtilize your vast expertise in Python to design and refine backend systems that seamlessly integrate with machine learning and AI functionalities.Craft and execute robust business logic using web frameworks such as Django, ensuring full compatibility with AI components and integration with MySQL.Architect scalable solutions employing technologies like Nginx, Kafka, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, and big data platforms to support advanced AI models and workflows.Produce reusable, efficient, and maintainable code that underpins our high-performance applications, delivering exceptional user experiences.

About SesameAt Sesame, we envision a world where computers can interact with us in authentic, lifelike ways—seeing, hearing, and collaborating as humans do. Our mission is to create an innovative computer interface that seamlessly integrates voice agents into everyday life. Our diverse team comprises founders from Oculus and Ubiquity6 and seasoned professionals from Meta, Google, and Apple, each bringing extensive expertise in hardware and software. Join us in pioneering a future where technology feels alive.About the RoleAs a Backend Infrastructure Engineer at Sesame, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the foundational aspects of our technology stack. This position focuses on developing high-impact infrastructure, services, and tools that are broad-reaching rather than narrowly defined. You will tackle scalability and architectural challenges across various domains, including agentic workflows, speech recognition and synthesis, IoT, large-scale training, and efficient low-latency inference. If you're driven by the challenge of creating an ultra-efficient, scalable, and reliable engineering ecosystem through a blend of tooling, services, libraries, and infrastructure, this is the perfect opportunity for you.Responsibilities:Design and develop foundational infrastructure to support serving, training, and applications at Sesame.Enhance productivity for engineering teams by automating processes and creating exceptional tools.Deliver software solutions that empower product and machine learning engineers to build secure, scalable, and dependable systems from the ground up.Your responsibilities will encompass provider, service, security, and developer infrastructure, as well as the architecture and implementation of core services and libraries.

About the RoleAt Counsel Health, we have developed an innovative product that has garnered admiration from both patients and physicians, utilizing a fast-paced technology stack. As we continue to grow, the complexity between our application code and infrastructure is expanding. We are seeking a talented individual who thrives in this dynamic intersection.We are in search of a Backend Infrastructure Engineer who embodies both software engineering and infrastructure expertise. This role is not about working in isolation writing Terraform scripts all day or solely delivering product features in React. Instead, you will work within the essential layer that connects our CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for our AWS environment, backend services, and the developer tools that empower our rapidly expanding engineering team.Your ResponsibilitiesEnhance Our Infrastructure-as-Code: Design and manage our cloud infrastructure utilizing Terraform.Optimize CI/CD Processes: Take ownership of our build, test, and deployment pipelines from start to finish. Aim to make production deployments effortless, speedy, reliable, and automated.Backend Development: Create production-level backend services and contribute to our core server-side systems. You are proficient in writing application code, not just orchestrating it.Create Core Archetypes: Develop production-grade archetypes for new deployments, jobs, consumers, and workers. You are adept at building an abstract base stream consumer or cron executor for widespread application.Enhance Developer Experience: Act as the engineer who accelerates the productivity of other engineers. Streamline local development workflows, decrease build times, resolve flaky infrastructure issues, and create internal tools that the team genuinely values.Security & Compliance: Collaborate closely with our security and compliance team to strengthen our infrastructure security posture, including secrets management, IAM policies, network isolation, and audit logging in a HIPAA-compliant environment.Who You AreA Bridge Builder: You feel at home in an IDE crafting application code as well as in a terminal managing cloud infrastructure. You view backend and infrastructure as intertwined disciplines.An Automation Advocate: If a task is done manually more than twice, you are already scripting it for automation.A Systems Thinker: You comprehend how a request traverses through various systems and how they interact.

About the TeamAt Taara, born from X, Google's Moonshot Factory, we are dedicated to connecting billions of individuals who currently lack access to affordable and reliable internet. Our innovative approach utilizes light to deliver faster and more economical connectivity solutions. Join us in our mission to bridge the digital divide and illuminate the future through groundbreaking wireless optical communication and photonics chip technologies.About the RoleAs a Senior Backend Software Engineer, Cloud & Infrastructure, you will serve as the architect of our global network's core operations. While our hardware establishes the connections, your software will oversee and optimize them. You will be responsible for designing and scaling distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native infrastructures that monitor and control our wireless optical terminals deployed in the field.We are looking for a versatile candidate who excels in building dependable and scalable backend systems. You should be comfortable developing high-performance Go services, architecting extensive data pipelines for telemetry, and automating cloud infrastructures.Your Impact:Scale the Control Plane: Design and implement a cloud-native backend that manages thousands of optical terminals across the globe.Architect Telemetry Pipelines: Create robust data ingestion and processing systems to handle real-time performance metrics from our optical terminals.Bridge Edge and Cloud: Collaborate with hardware engineers to establish secure and efficient communication between our devices and the cloud.Automate Everything: Spearhead our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy to ensure resilient and reproducible global deployments.Drive Observability: Develop monitoring tools and dashboards to empower our Network Operations Center (NOC) to troubleshoot complex optical links swiftly.

Join our dynamic team at Kira as a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on backend infrastructure. In this pivotal role, you will design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems that power our innovative solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance performance, reliability, and security of our infrastructure.Your expertise will contribute to architectural decisions, and you'll be instrumental in implementing best practices for coding and testing. We are looking for a passionate engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is eager to tackle complex challenges.

Rockstar is on the hunt for a talented Backend Software Engineer to join a rapidly expanding startup that is pioneering the AI infrastructure for the next generation of smart products. This innovative company specializes in providing AI startups with the tools to design, fine-tune, evaluate, deploy, and maintain their specialized models across various domains like text, vision, and embeddings. Think of them as the 'AWS for AI models'—offering a comprehensive backend solution for fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, inference, and ongoing model maintenance. Their clientele includes Series A to C AI companies that are developing enterprise-grade products, with a simple promise: to enhance your AI systems.As a Backend Software Engineer focusing on ML Infrastructure, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and scaling the essential systems that facilitate extensive model training and deployment.Your responsibilities will include developing distributed training pipelines, establishing cloud-native infrastructure, and creating internal developer platforms that support fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and inference at scale. This position uniquely combines backend engineering with machine learning systems, allowing you to work closely with ML engineers while taking ownership of production-grade infrastructure.This role is a fantastic opportunity for an early-career engineer eager to dive into real distributed systems, GPU workloads, and cutting-edge ML infrastructure—far removed from simple dashboards or CRUD applications.

Join Kira Learning as a Senior Software Engineer, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of educational technology. Our mission is to leverage cutting-edge AI technologies to make high-quality teaching and learning accessible to all.In this role, you will take ownership of essential backend systems and infrastructure that drive key product workflows. This position is perfect for engineers who thrive on developing reliable and scalable services while enhancing infrastructure and developer tools. Although the primary focus is on backend development, the ideal candidate should also be comfortable working across the stack, collaborating closely with product teams to deliver comprehensive features.Kira is a rapidly growing startup, supported by top-tier Venture Capital firms, including New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Andrew Ng’s AI Fund.This is a full-time position that requires flexibility with work hours and availability outside of standard business hours. We have offices located in San Francisco, CA, and New York City, NY, and we expect employees to work in-person at one of these locations four days a week.

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in Streaming Infrastructure at Affirm, you'll leverage your expertise in backend systems to enhance our streaming capabilities. You will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and optimize our backend architecture, ensuring scalability and performance. Your contributions will directly influence how we deliver financial services efficiently to our customers.

CVector is dedicated to revolutionizing economic optimization and AI-driven predictions across energy and manufacturing sectors.Our technology seamlessly integrates critical decision-making factors that impact cost, reliability, and profit margins, providing a unified decision layer that forecasts future scenarios, simulates potential outcomes, and optimizes operational strategies. This allows industrial plants to operate closer to their maximum economic potential daily.This position requires in-office attendance at our New York City headquarters four days a week. CVector serves clients nationwide and operates in challenging industrial environments.Role OverviewAs a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Backend and AI Infrastructure, you will be instrumental in advancing CVector’s backend platform. Your focus will be on developing time-series data systems, AI-enhanced analytics, cloud infrastructure, and data ingestion pipelines that underpin our client-facing applications and internal modeling tools.This role is ideal for engineers who thrive on working closely with data and infrastructure, possess excellent architectural judgment, and are eager to engage with AI systems, databases, and distributed backend services. You will take ownership of complex systems, lead significant technical migrations, and influence the integration of intelligence into industrial energy workflows.You will work in close collaboration with product, modeling, and frontend engineers, significantly impacting the platform's direction, reliability, and scalability for the long term.Key ResponsibilitiesAs a Senior Software Engineer, your contributions will span various interconnected domains:Intelligent SystemsTranslate customer domains and operational workflows into effective prompts and AI system interfaces.Design, implement, and refine evaluations for AI outputs.Incorporate customer feedback and reinforcement signals to enhance system performance.Optimize context selection, retrieval, and trace collection to elevate output quality.Fine-tune smaller models using collected traces to enhance speed while maintaining performance standards.Evaluate and assimilate new AI platforms and models as they emerge.Support the training and deployment of large, time-series-specific models.Backend Platform and Data InfrastructureOversee migrations and enhancements of our time-series data schemas and storage systems.Update and manage PostgreSQL and associated database infrastructure.Develop and sustain data connectors for industrial and external systems.Lead improvements to MQTT-based data ingestion pipelines.Transition PostgREST to a GraphQL-based framework and evolve our API architecture.

Coupang is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer focused on Application Infrastructure to help shape the backbone of its large-scale e-commerce platform. This position is based in Mountain View or Seattle. Role overview This role centers on building and maintaining backend systems that are both scalable and reliable. The work supports the platform's growth and ensures that applications perform well under heavy demand. What you will do Design, develop, and maintain backend applications for Coupang’s e-commerce infrastructure Work closely with teams across the company to deliver solutions that meet business and technical needs Focus on system performance, reliability, and security throughout the development process Collaboration Expect to partner with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver backend systems that serve millions of users.

Why Join Doppel?At Doppel, we are dedicated to tackling one of the most significant threats posed by AI: mass-manufactured social engineering. With scams, deepfakes, and social engineering attacks proliferating across digital platforms such as websites, social media, advertisements, encrypted messaging apps, and mobile devices, our mission is both simple and ambitious: to enhance internet safety by outsmarting the fastest-evolving digital threats.Supported by renowned investors like a16z and Bessemer, and trusted by industry leaders such as OpenAI, United Airlines, and Coinbase, Doppel is on a rapid growth trajectory. If you are passionate about addressing real-world challenges through innovative technology, we want to hear from you!What We're BuildingWe are developing an AI-driven platform to combat social engineering on a large scale. This involves creating scalable systems that monitor billions of domains, social media accounts, applications, and dark web forums, utilizing AI agents to detect and neutralize digital threats effectively.What We're Looking ForWe are in search of a skilled backend engineer to enhance the infrastructure needed for our rapidly expanding engineering team. Recent projects include:Developed a self-hosted Elasticsearch infrastructure on Kubernetes, facilitating real-time search capabilities across millions of alerts and associated metadata.Established core infrastructure using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code), enabling reproducible, version-controlled environments and expediting onboarding for new engineers.Implemented a dedicated staging environment, which enhances safety during releases, feature validation, and automated integration testing prior to production deployments.Introduced observability and tracing mechanisms (metrics, logging, distributed tracing), significantly improving our capacity to debug performance issues and sustain reliability at scale.What We Offer A mission-driven culture emphasizing low ego, high accountability, deep customer focus, and exceptional talent density. Complimentary lunch and dinner in the office. Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO). Quarterly team offsites.

About UsAt Credal, we are dedicated to leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to empower those who are shaping a better tomorrow.We enhance the most sophisticated operations of leading institutions, seamlessly integrating security and governance throughout our offerings. Our esteemed clientele includes notable organizations such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, MongoDB, Comcast NBC Universal, Lattice, Wise (TransferWise), Checkr, and incident.io.Having successfully raised over $10 million, we have a significant runway to support our vision. Join our team of Thoughtful Doers™ hailing from industry giants like Palantir, Cruise, Meta, Uber, and Google. At Credal, we foster a collaborative in-person environment at our spacious NYC office, where meals are provided.