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  • Design, build, and maintain scalable, low-latency RESTful APIs and microservices using Python and FastAPI.
  • Act as the primary owner for PostgreSQL, handling everything from schema design to large-scale data migrations.
  • Implement and manage vector-based data use cases using pgvector to support embedding storage and high-performance similarity search.

Python FastAPI PostgreSQL SQL BigQuery

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  • Design, implement, and maintain both internal and public-facing APIs used across various Supabase products.
  • Integrate with third-party platforms and partners, either by developing custom integrations or providing clear API points.
  • Build and enhance testing, debugging, and monitoring tools to ensure public APIs' stability, reliability, and performance.

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. They provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. They have 180+ team members across 40+ countries, and believe their globally distributed team is their secret weapon in building tools developers love.

  • 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.

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.

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.

$142,600–$176,000/yr
US

  • Design, develop, and implement scalable and robust backend systems and APIs using Python.
  • Optimize database schemas, queries, and overall performance while maintaining security and data integrity.
  • Lead debugging, profiling, and monitoring of backend services, proactively identifying and addressing issues before they impact users.

Octave is a modern behavioral health practice creating a new standard for care delivery that’s both high-quality and accessible. With in-person and virtual clinics in multiple states, the company offers evidence-based individual, couples, and family therapy. By raising the bar on how care is delivered and how providers are supported, we are building a sustainable system that values equity, affordability, and effectiveness.

$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

DualEntry, founded in 2024, is a rapidly growing AI startup focused on revolutionizing the finance industry. They provide an AI-native ERP that automates manual data entry, serving businesses from $5M-ARR to NYSE-listed companies, and fostering a culture of urgency and ownership.

US

  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to understand business requirements.
  • Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code adhering to coding standards.
  • Continuously improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of systems.

LTK empowers lifestyle creators to monetize their content through its technology platform. They have a diverse, multi-disciplinary team and operate on five continents, with headquarters in Dallas, TX.

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

  • Develop and iterate backend features and data frameworks that make it safe and efficient to work with data at scale.
  • Collaborate with product management, UX, frontend, infrastructure, software delivery, and analytics teams to design and ship high-performing, reliable solutions.
  • Review and improve database-related changes from other engineers and external contributors to ensure data integrity, safety, and performance across diverse environments.

GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. They unite teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development.

Europe

  • Building and maintaining our software components using primarily python ecosystem
  • Backend services and APIs with fastAPI, Kafka, Redis, AWS ecosystem
  • Collaborating with other teams to help them integrate with our microservices

Lightspeed provides a one-stop commerce platform to help merchants innovate, simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Founded in Montreal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LSPD) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LSPD).

$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.

$120,000–$175,000/yr
Global 3w PTO

  • Own end-to-end execution for backend systems and infrastructure.
  • Implement and validate end-to-end payment and data pipelines.
  • Build and maintain customer-facing integrations between DualEntry and third-party platforms.

DualEntry, founded in 2024, is a rapidly growing AI startup focused on revolutionizing the finance industry. They provide an AI-native ERP solution that automates manual data entry, catering to businesses ranging from $5M-ARR to NYSE-listed companies.

$105,000–$130,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs that support core product features.
  • Work with Postgres database to model data, write efficient queries, and ensure data integrity and performance.
  • Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and designers to support end-to-end feature development.

Impiricus is the first and only AI-powered HCP Engagement Engine that ethically connects HCPs to pharma resources, reduce go-to-market costs and accelerate patient access to the treatments they need. Founded by a practicing physician and a senior pharmaceutical executive, In 2025, Deloitte named Impiricus the #1 fastest growing company in North America.

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.

$50–$85/hr
Global Unlimited PTO

  • Architect solutions for 10x growth minimizing complexity.
  • Enhance engineer effectiveness through better tools and patterns.
  • Build self-healing systems for improved operational stability.

Teramind protects over 10,000 organizations from insider threats by analyzing billions of behavioral events daily and is scaling to 100,000 customers. They are a global leader in user behavior analytics, insider risk management, and workforce intelligence, empowering businesses to transform data into a strategic asset.

$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.

$140,000–$160,000/yr
US

  • Design, implement, and maintain backend services in a modern TypeScript/Node.js ecosystem.
  • Build and evolve event-driven pipelines, task orchestration, and asynchronous workflows.
  • Develop robust APIs (REST and WebSocket) with clear versioning and backward-compatibility guarantees.

GovCIO is passionate about transforming government IT, making a positive impact by delivering innovative IT services and solutions that improve how government agencies operate and serve citizens. They are building a workforce that fuels this mission with a culture investing in people.

$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.

US

  • Build and ship features across frontend and backend systems
  • Move seamlessly between Next.js, SvelteKit, and Hono depending on what the problem requires
  • Work with Postgres as the primary data layer, designing schemas and optimizing queries

SERHANT. is the most followed real estate brand in the world, calibrated for the marketplace of tomorrow, delivering proven results for buyers, sellers, and developers. SERHANT. revolutionizes the traditional brokerage model by innovating through media and content creation and is powered by a full-service in-house film studio as well as an amplification platform.

$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.