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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff, Backend Engineer - **Company:** AI, INC. - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Data Visualization, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Open Source Technology, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Web Application Frameworks, ReactJS, Backend, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Machine Learning Operations, Api Design, Restful APIs, Terraform, Golang, Microservices - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-backend-engineer-sequen-ai-8702823 ## About the Role * Proven track record: Bring 8+ years of practical experience as a backend or platform engineer building highly performant, scalable distributed systems. * Go language mastery: Possess an expert-level command of Go (Golang) as your primary programming language for building highly concurrent systems. * Service-oriented expertise: Demonstrate strong systems-level skills and extensive experience designing and operating complex service-oriented architectures. * Startup DNA: Thrive in early-stage, fast-moving, or rapidly evolving environments, with a proven history of building and scaling systems from 0 to 1. * Extreme ownership: Take absolute accountability for your work, navigating ambiguity with agility and proactively resolving obstacles to deliver results. * System-wide comfort: Operate comfortably across any layer of the stack, diving into cloud infrastructure, core microservices, or developer tooling to deliver complete, effective solutions. * Passion for AI systems: Enjoy working alongside a fast-paced, elite team tackling cutting-edge challenges at the intersection of systems engineering and AI ranking. * Product-focused mindset: Approach platform engineering with a product-focused lens, caring deeply about building systems that are robust, highly scalable, and easy to use. * Academic foundations: Hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience. ## Description * Build the platform: Build and scale robust, concurrent core platform components designed to handle Sequen's rapid growth and high transactional throughput. * Architect composable systems: Design and architect composable platform components that deliver exceptional value across a wide variety of enterprise use cases. * Collaborate across teams: Partner closely with product and ML engineering teams to deeply understand their requirements and build platform capabilities that accelerate feature delivery. * Drive architectural decisions: Make critical build-versus-buy decisions, evaluating and implementing third-party or open-source solutions when they yield the highest strategic impact. * Set technical vision: Define the long-term technical direction, standards, and vision for various product and platform features. * Partner with research: Collaborate closely with our ML research scientists to quickly prototype and launch new capabilities based on research breakthroughs., * Polyglot capabilities: Bring a firm grasp of Python for machine learning pipelines and scripting integrations. * Infrastructure fluency: Know your way around container orchestration (kubectl, Kubernetes) and Infrastructure-as-Code (terraform). * ML alignment: Have worked directly with NLP and ML models, understanding their deployment patterns, performance capabilities, and operational limits. * Modern API design: Possess deep experience designing and implementing highly performant, secure RESTful and gRPC APIs. * Full-stack exposure: Bring lightweight experience with React and modern frontend frameworks to help build internal diagnostics and visualization tools. ## Related Videos - [Watch Tests Go Brrrr! 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