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$180,000–$205,000/yr
United States

  • Own core backend platform features end-to-end, from concept and architecture through deployment and iteration.
  • Build and maintain low-latency, highly available backend services that power real-time threat detection.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally in a fully remote, distributed team environment.

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$140,000–$165,000/yr
US

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable back-end systems and APIs for high-throughput messaging operations.
  • Improve platform reliability, performance, observability, and automation across onboarding, compliance, and routing.
  • Collaborate with Product and Operations teams to translate complex workflows into scalable distributed systems.

Volt Labs builds the infrastructure layer behind modern business messaging, helping companies navigate messaging compliance, onboarding, deliverability, routing, and operational complexity across carriers and providers. We are a remote-first, high-ownership team operating in a fast-moving growth environment with a deep focus on builder mentality, operational excellence, and collaborative culture.

Global

  • Build and operate backend systems that serve AI-powered insurance workflows in production.
  • Design and implement AI orchestration layers connecting models, APIs, workflows, and business logic.
  • Optimize latency, throughput, and cost across AI services through caching, batching, streaming, and routing.

BJAK is Southeast Asia's largest digital insurance platform, building AI-powered products that simplify insurance and financial services for millions of users. It operates with a global engineering team that values high ownership, technical excellence, and modern practices.

Global

  • Build and operate backend systems serving AI-powered insurance workflows in production.
  • Design and implement AI orchestration layers connecting models, APIs, workflows, and business logic.
  • Optimize latency, throughput, and cost across AI services using caching, batching, streaming, and routing.

Next Step Systems is an IT recruiting and staffing company that helps businesses hire technology professionals. They operate globally, connecting talent with opportunities in various tech roles.

Global

  • Design and own backend systems for high-throughput, asynchronous workloads including generation queues and media processing
  • Architect for scale and reliability, making decisions on data flow, service boundaries, and failure handling
  • Build and optimize async pipelines with job queuing, retries, backpressure, and dead-letter handling

ImagineArt is a bootstrapped GenAI platform for image and video generation, serving Fortune 500 clients with $35M+ ARR. They are a small, fast-moving team with a low-process, bootstrapped culture.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Design and build scalable backend systems powering AI Agents in real-time enterprise environments.
  • Develop agent orchestration frameworks including multi-step reasoning, tool usage, and decisioning workflows.
  • Architect low-latency inference pipelines integrating LLMs, SLMs, and external tools at scale.

Level AI is an AI-native platform that transforms enterprise contact centers into engines of customer intelligence and business growth. Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, as a Series C company backed by Battery Ventures and ENIAC, their team builds agentic AI at scale.

India Unlimited PTO

  • Design and build scalable backend systems for AI governance, including auditability, policy enforcement, and enterprise reporting.
  • Collaborate with distributed engineering teams to define architecture and improve engineering practices for secure AI adoption.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to technical direction in a remote, asynchronous environment.

This role is offered through Jobgether, an AI-powered matching platform that connects candidates with hiring companies. Jobgether uses advanced systems to review applications and share top-fitting candidates directly with employers.

US Unlimited PTO 16w maternity 16w paternity

  • Design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions connecting Remote’s platform to customer systems and workflows.
  • Work at the frontier of practical AI, shipping reliable, observable, and secure systems in production.
  • Own customer outcomes from discovery through production rollout with high autonomy and direct influence on product roadmap.

Remote is a global HR platform that helps businesses recruit, pay, and manage international teams compliantly. The company fosters a future-focused, async culture with team members across 6 continents and emphasizes innovation, automation, and AI.

Global

  • Lead the design and development of production AI systems powering insurance workflow automation.
  • Architect AI orchestration layers connecting LLMs, backend services, and business workflows.
  • Own end-to-end AI system design including inference pipelines, routing, caching, and fallback strategies.

BJAK is Southeast Asia's largest digital insurance platform, building AI-powered products that simplify insurance and financial services for millions of users. They use AI and automation to transform real-world insurance workflows and foster a high-ownership culture with small, empowered teams.

Global

  • Own end-to-end backend architecture for an AI platform transitioning from prototype to production-grade.
  • Design and evolve extraction pipelines, multi-provider LLM abstraction, and async worker systems.
  • Lead engineering leadership, mentor senior engineers, and drive technical roadmap.

India

  • Build core systems, advanced backend products, and engineering culture for scaling enterprise automation and workflows.
  • Own complex production systems, optimize internal tooling, and design AI-native engineering functions.
  • Work directly with leadership on high-leverage problems like data processing, search, and AI-assisted operations.

Frontier helps fast-growing companies build full-time, cross-functional teams abroad by hiring top talent. It is a subsidiary of Fresh Prints, a New York-based, fully remote company with around 150 employees, and values work smarter culture and long-term ownership.

Canada

  • Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI-powered backend systems.
  • Integrate large language models and machine learning models into scalable architectures.
  • Optimize system performance and implement strong testing practices.

Our partner company is building advanced AI-powered systems to create meaningful customer value. The team operates in a high-autonomy, fast-moving environment focused on production-ready AI solutions.

Argentina

  • Design and build secure infrastructure for AI-assisted development and testing.
  • Implement data-access security across the platform and cross-cutting application features.
  • Manage your own projects, communicating designs, plans, and status updates proactively.

HomeVision builds AI-powered software for the $13 trillion mortgage industry. Their small, hungry team values ownership, low ego, and clear communication, tackling hard problems from design to deployment.

Global

  • Design and optimize scalable APIs and distributed services for mission-critical fraud detection technology.
  • Investigate complex technical issues through root cause analysis and performance testing.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver robust, production-ready solutions while mentoring junior engineers.

The hiring partner company builds high-performance backend systems for real-time fraud detection technology used by organizations worldwide. The engineering team is globally distributed and values technical excellence, autonomy, and knowledge sharing.

UK

  • Design and build scalable backend systems for Midnite's internal back office platform.
  • Lead and mentor a small team of engineers while remaining hands-on in delivery.
  • Productionise and deploy AI-powered tools for engineering and business use cases.

Midnite is a next-generation sports betting and gaming platform built for a new wave of players. We are a high-performance team of over 400,000 players operating at pace, with high ownership and constant iteration.

Canada

  • Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI-powered backend systems integrating LLMs and traditional ML models.
  • Integrate and optimize vector databases for RAG pipelines, and write clean, well-structured Python code.
  • Debug complex cross-layer issues and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver cohesive solutions.

We are a fast-growing product company integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities into our core offering to deliver exceptional value to customers. Our small, fast-moving team works on practical, real-world AI applications with high autonomy.

China

  • Design and build platform components that support AI-driven workflow automation systems.
  • Develop shared infrastructure and services for workflow orchestration, state management and execution tracking.
  • Improve APIs, service frameworks and backend standards used across multiple engineering teams.

BJAK’s automation systems power end-to-end insurance journeys across quote generation, policy issuance, renewals, endorsements, claims, payments and insurer integrations. They have a global engineering team working across multiple countries and offer a fully remote, high-ownership environment with a focus on scalability and reliability.

  • Own the architecture, design, and delivery for your team's platform area, turning roadmap into engineering plans that ship and hold up in production.
  • Design and build core parts of a compound AI system spanning agents, LLMs, and RAG, with a focus on reliability, evaluation, and scale.
  • Champion engineering best practices, mentor engineers, and partner with product and design counterparts to align on priorities.

Crogl builds fully autonomous AI team members for security operations centers (SOCs), helping organizations secure their digital estates. As a startup with a focus on innovation, they seek senior technical leaders to join their remote team.

UK

  • Partner with enterprise clients to understand challenges and design robust technical solutions, from APIs to AI workflows.
  • Own production deployments ensuring reliability, observability, and continuous improvement of delivered systems.
  • Build AI-enabled systems using LLMs and agentic workflows while collaborating across Product, Engineering, and Sales teams.

Our partner is a company focused on deploying AI and enterprise integrations at scale. They operate in a remote-first, high-trust environment with a focus on practical AI deployment.

5w PTO 26w maternity 2w paternity

  • Lead architecture and delivery of distributed cloud-native applications for high concurrency and real-time data needs.
  • Design production-grade data pipelines and integrate ML/GenAI capabilities, including RAG and model serving.
  • Mentor peers, set engineering standards, and evolve legacy systems into microservices for scale.

Outreach, founded in 2014, is a complete agentic AI platform for revenue teams, powering use cases across sales motions with AI automation. The company serves world-leading enterprises like Databricks, SAP, and Siemens, and promotes diversity through employee resource groups.

US 6w PTO

  • Build multi-agent AI systems and automation platforms for Marketing Operations at scale.
  • Design and implement LLM integrations, backend services, and agentic workflows.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to identify high-impact automation problems and ship measurable solutions.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, offering a fully managed platform with AI capabilities to help organizations monitor and optimize their systems. With over 1,600 team members across 40+ countries and backed by top investors, we maintain a 100% remote, collaborative culture rooted in open source and innovation.