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$100,000–$175,000/yr
Global 3w PTO

  • You’ll own end-to-end execution for backend systems and infrastructure
  • You’ll build APIs, services, and real-time systems handling complex accounting logic
  • You’ll collaborate with founders, product, and frontend engineering to turn complex workflows into secure, performant systems

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  • Design and build robust, scalable services that power Al-driven systems.
  • Implement clean, modular, and testable code across distributed systems.
  • Own data modeling, schema design, and performance optimization.

Artificial.Agency is building AI-driven systems. They seem to have a flexible work environment and value diverse perspectives, creating an inclusive environment for employees.

US

  • Building features related to our data pipelines, usage of LLMs, analytics APIs, etc.
  • Doing whatever is necessary to deliver value to our customers.
  • Creating notifications, alert emails, scheduled reports, connectors into third party systems, etc.

Scrunch helps marketing teams rethink how their products and services are discovered and surfaced on AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. They have scaled rapidly since commercial launch and have more than 500 paying brands using the platform.

Global

  • Build and operate backend services that handle 13 billion+ annual events.
  • Explore, utilize, and release the robust backend for an AI application to build a DIFM (Do it for me) marketing tool.
  • Design strong internal and public APIs and build integrations with partners like Shopify, Zapier, and WooCommerce.

Flodesk is an email marketing company that helps creators sell online and design emails. They are a remote-first company headquartered in San Francisco, California, with a globally distributed team and an in-person office in Da Nang, Vietnam.

$145,600–$163,800/yr
US

  • Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop the core systems and create APIs.
  • Build out internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer.
  • Implement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goals.

Openly is rebuilding insurance from the ground up, aiming to enhance every aspect of the customer experience. They are a rapidly growing team of exceptional people with diverse skill sets, they value collaboration, communication, and work-life balance.

Europe

  • Prototyping, implementing, shipping and supporting features.
  • Digitizing risks using Generative AI.
  • Changing the insurance industry.

Cytora, now an Applied Systems company, is transforming how insurers and brokers connect, operate, and grow with their AI-powered platform. They foster a culture that values individuals and recognizes them as teammates who matter, embracing diverse experiences and celebrating uniqueness.

$150,000–$200,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Build and ship backend features in our Django monolith.
  • Improve performance and reliability by optimizing database queries, endpoints, and caching layers.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver intuitive and reliable experiences at scale.

Scribe's Workflow AI platform automatically captures and optimizes workflows so teams work smarter, faster, and more consistently. They are a fast-growing company with over 5 million users across 600,000 businesses and are backed by leading investors.

Europe 4w PTO

  • Drive new features delivery end-to-end through implementation, launch, and continuous iteration
  • Write performant, scalable and testable code with the help of modern tools
  • Participate in active engineering design sessions with evidence and experience-based contributions

Remedy Product Studio specializes in working with and investing in prominent start-ups and brands in building and scaling their digital products. They use data-driven agile approaches coupled with high performing teams as a cornerstone of their technology-first culture.

India

  • Design, build, and maintain services that scale with our growing customer base.
  • Tackle ambiguous, open-ended problems with strategic thinking, balancing technical constraints with user needs and product goals.
  • Build services, APIs, and experiences that support user delight, quality, high availability and performance.

dbt Labs is the pioneer of analytics engineering, helping data teams transform raw data into reliable, actionable insights. They have grown from an open source project into the leading analytics engineering platform, now used by over 50,000 teams every week.

Europe 6w PTO

  • Own backend work end to end, from decisions and implementation to release monitoring.
  • Ship frequently and iterate fast, using real user feedback to guide decisions.
  • Work closely with product and frontend engineers to deliver user-facing experiences.

Photoroom, launched in 2020 after Y Combinator, is a popular AI photo editor. They aim to enable anyone to create studio-level product images and serve individual creators and major enterprises with their B2C app and B2B API solutions and are a profitable, remote-friendly company of 100+ passionate builders.

Global

  • Design, code, implement, and document improvements to a high standard
  • Build and maintain backend services that integrate with database systems and operational tooling
  • Perform root cause analysis of customer-impacting defects to provide the optimal solution

Percona provides services and software for MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB to open source users globally. They are a remote-first and globally dispersed company with 350 people in 52 countries that offers a collaborative, highly-engaged culture.

$135,000–$200,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable, and efficient backend systems and services that meet enterprise requirements
  • Optimize and improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of existing backend systems
  • Write clean, maintainable, and testable code that adheres to best practices

Cortex is the AI-powered Internal Developer Portal that helps engineering leaders at companies build organizations that ship reliable, secure, and efficient software, faster. They are a mighty group of ~100 passionate individuals excited about building a product that developers love.

$175,000–$200,000/yr
US

  • Create API solutions for internal and external web services.
  • Build performant and reliable services and solutions to manage and transfer data.
  • Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards.

Sirona Medical builds software that enables physicians to work as fast as they think. They are a San Francisco-based, cloud-native software company with employees around the world.

US

  • Analyze and solve interesting business and technical challenges.
  • Develop software architecture that stands the test of scale and time.
  • Champion our customers at every turn.

Acorns is a financial wellness app that helps everyday people and families save and invest money for the long term. Since 2014, Acorns has grown into a global company with multiple life-stage products serving the needs of kids, teens, adults, and parents.

Global

  • Designing and evolving enterprise-grade backend services used directly by customers and partners.
  • Building stable APIs and integrations that support complex workflows without slowing the platform.
  • Improving observability and reliability, using real system and usage data to guide decisions.

Leonardo.Ai builds creative AI tools used by millions of people every day, helping individuals and teams bring ideas to life more easily using AI. Acquired by Canva in late 2024, they have long-term backing and the opportunity to scale globally.

US

  • Design and build robust backend services that integrate internal systems and third-party APIs to support branding, content, and research workflows.
  • Lead system architecture decisions for new internal tools and utilities, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Develop automation pipelines for tasks like asset delivery, PDF report generation, data synchronization, and marketing material creation.

Truelogic is a leading provider of nearshore staff augmentation services headquartered in New York. Their team of 600+ highly skilled tech professionals, based in Latin America, drives digital disruption by partnering with U.S. companies on their most impactful projects.

$110,000–$135,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO 9w maternity

  • Design, develop, and maintain backend systems in Python, integrating AI-driven functionalities and APIs
  • Implement prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAGs), and basic generative AI solutions into platform workflows
  • Collaborate on AI model deployment, fine-tuning, and production integration

Impiricus is the first and only AI-powered HCP Engagement Engine created to cut through the noise and put physician care delivery at the forefront. The company is committed to providing life science companies with AI technology needed to deliver evidence-based resources into the hands of HCPs.

Mexico

  • Build new features for the REST API & enhance the AWS infrastructure on top of a modern tech stack using C# and AWS CloudFormation.
  • Work with product management, designers, and QA team to implement new features and enhancements.
  • Participate as a reviewer in our pull request review process, ensuring high code quality and providing valuable insights to your fellow team members.

Varicent transforms the Sales Performance Management (SPM) market, redefining how organizations achieve revenue success. Our cutting-edge SaaS solutions empower revenue leaders globally to design smarter go-to-market strategies and maximize seller performance.

US

  • Design, develop, and maintain Epic’s core backend systems and services.
  • Contribute to the design and development of Epic’s enterprise data warehouse (EDW).
  • Build, optimize, and maintain data pipelines to ensure high data quality, reliability, and performance.

Epic is the leading digital reading platform for kids ages 12 and under, used by millions of children, families, and educators around the world. As Epic continues to grow, they are reimagining what reading can be through thoughtful technology, data, and global collaboration to make learning more engaging, accessible, and impactful.

$120,800–$181,200/yr
US

  • Collaborate with frontend engineers to create APIs to provide a best-in-class experience for our users
  • Integrate with external services using APIs to manage payments, documents, and claims
  • Contribute to important architectural and operational decisions like microservices vs. monoliths, deployment techniques, technologies, policies, processes, etc.

Openly is rebuilding the insurance sector from the ground up, re-envisioning and enhancing every aspect of the customer experience. They are a rapidly growing team of exceptional, curious, empathetic people with a wide range of skill sets, spanning technology, data science, product, marketing, sales, service, claims handling, and finance.

$100,000–$175,000/yr
US

  • Design and implement backend services using NestJS (v11) and TypeScript.
  • Build secure, well-validated REST APIs using zod, class-validator, and OpenAPI.
  • Implement role-based access control and JWT validation using Google Identity Model and manage relational data using Prisma and Postgres.

Outlive is translating the principles of Medicine 3.0 into a practical, evidence-based product that helps people change the trajectory of their health. The team is small, driven, and aligned around a shared goal: build something that meaningfully improves long-term health.