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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # backend engineer - **Company:** Silicon Valley, Inc. - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Systems, Software Debugging, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Node.Js, Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, Data Streaming, TypeScript, Web Applications, WebSocket, Datadog, Large Language Models, Grafana, Backend, Git, Front End Software Development, NestJS, Restful APIs, Data Pipelines, Microservices - **Published:** August 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/auth/login?destination=/job/senior-backend-engineer/10700773 ## About the Role We're looking for a backend engineer who is both highly technical and pragmatic, excited to use AI tools to amplify their output and ship better products faster. You should bring: * Productization Experience: A track record of productizing software from early development through scale-out, including system scaling, security infrastructure, and monetization. * Collaboration & Ownership: Organized, responsible, and proactive - able to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment, solve technical challenges independently, and coordinate across the team. * Critical Thinking & Communication: Strong problem-solving skills with clear written and spoken English for remote collaboration (Spanish and/or Portuguese are a plus). * Pragmatism: The judgment to know when to move fast and when to invest in long-term stability. * Backend & Architecture: Strong experience with Node.js and frameworks like Nest.js or Express, plus a solid grasp of distributed systems, scaling patterns, microservices, and cloud infrastructure. * APIs & Dataflows: Familiarity with streaming APIs, websockets, asynchronous architectures, and designing/maintaining RESTful APIs and event schemas. * AI familiarity: Experienced building tools and data pipelines using Python and AI APIs, with a strong understanding of when and how to apply different LLMs. * Databases: Hands-on expertise with both relational (Postgres) and document (MongoDB) databases, from schema design to indexes and query tuning, with an emphasis on scalability and performance., * Experience Level: 5+ years of backend development, focusing on data systems and high-traffic web applications. * Languages & Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, Python. * Databases: PostgreSQL and MongoDB at scale. * Performance optimization: Experience using observability tools, debugging, and performing root cause analysis. * Data Pipelines: Experience building scalable asynchronous pipelines, especially for language/AI data. * DevOps & Tools: Git, CI/CD processes; familiarity with Datadog, Digital Ocean, and/or GCP is a plus. If you're excited about building a product with potential for tremendous impact at the leading edge of AI-first productivity and collaboration, we'd love to hear from you! ## Description Lead design and implementation of backend services and distributed systems for real-time AI automation. Build scalable, observable microservices, streaming data pipelines, and async event-driven architectures. Collaborate across frontend, product, and DevOps to ensure performance, reliability, and seamless integration at scale., We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to lead and enhance the backbone of our AI automation platform. This is a hands-on role with real architectural responsibility - ideal for someone with technical leadership experience who has taken a product from early stage to scale and knows how to balance speed with long-term stability. The work centers on building an autonomous reactive programming architecture that makes AI automation feel seamless and alive, while also designing the distributed systems and scalable infrastructure needed to support widespread adoption. Responsibilities * Design, build, and optimize backend services to support real-time AI and automation workloads. * Architect distributed systems with instrumentation that scale reliably and efficiently. * Improve system performance of streaming data, asynchronous event-driven communications, and resilient microservices. * Collaborate with frontend, product and devops teams to ensure seamless integration. * Architect for scale, performance and efficiency at the logic, network and database layers. * Lay foundations for high quality distributed services that can evolve and grow as we scale out. ## Related Videos - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Nest.js - TypeScript in the backend can also be clean](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1033-nest-js-typescript-in-the-backend-can-also-be-clean) - [How a Small Team Shrank a Microsoft Monorepo by 94%](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1236-how-a-small-team-shrank-a-microsoft-monorepo-by-94) - [Inside Bitpanda's Tech Stack: Scaling a European Fintech Leader - Markus Dorner](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1979-inside-bitpanda-s-tech-stack-scaling-a-european-fintech-leader-markus-dorner) - [DevOps Maturity Check – a way to balance autonomy and alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/58-devops-maturity-check-a-way-to-balance-autonomy-and-alignment) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 159: AI Pipelines, 10x Faster TypeScript, How to Interview](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/563-dev-digest-159-ai-pipelines-10x-faster-typescript-how-to-interview) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs)