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$172,000–$203,000/yr
US Canada

  • Take ownership of the Fondue cashback and incentives product, evolving its underlying architecture and driving technical standards for scaling.
  • Independently design and execute solutions for distributed systems, implement AI-first coding practices, and decouple monolithic dependencies.
  • Architect and maintain scalable REST APIs, collaborate cross-functionally with finance and support, and improve system resilience by eliminating single points of failure.

Typescript Go Distributed Systems AWS Kubernetes

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US Unlimited PTO

  • Own and drive business-critical product areas.
  • Design, build, and operate scalable, high-performance backend services.
  • Lead projects and collaborate with Product, Design, QA and other engineers.

Jobgether uses an AI-powered matching process to ensure applications are reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. The system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company.

$170,000–$220,000/yr
US

  • Build and scale backend services for member experiences, clinical workflows, and internal operations with a focus on reliability and performance.
  • Provide technical leadership across teams through system design, pragmatic decision-making, and clear communication to unblock progress.
  • Partner with Product and Design to translate business needs into technical plans and contribute to infrastructure, observability, and delivery practices.

Parsley Health builds an advanced, data-driven functional healthcare platform focused on root-cause treatment of the whole person. The company is the largest functional healthcare provider in the US, with a culture emphasizing speed, ownership, accountability, and collaborative excellence.

Global

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for compliance, data, and payment products.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to translate business needs into technical solutions and take ownership of end-to-end projects.
  • Ensure code quality, reliability, and security through best practices and mentor junior engineers to foster technical excellence.

Finalis builds core infrastructure for private capital markets. The company offers a 100% remote, diverse, and inclusive environment with a focus on career growth through structured programs.

US

  • Lead development of new features and enhancements, balancing delivery speed with scalability and sustainability.
  • Shape application architecture for a distributed platform to ensure global performance, security, and accessibility.
  • Influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner cross-functionally to align solutions with customer needs.

Articulate Global, LLC is the leading SaaS provider of creator platforms for online workplace training. It is a human-centered organization with over 118,000 customers in 170 countries, named one of Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces 2022, and is guided by a commitment to provide value, do right by employees, and create an equitable workplace.

Europe

  • Build and evolve backend infrastructure for an agentic AI observability platform using Node.js and Go
  • Collaborate with AI engineers to productionize and optimize agent workflows for reliability and performance
  • Design and implement secure execution environments for untrusted or dynamically generated code

Jobgether utilizes an AI-powered matching process to ensure quick, objective, and fair application reviews. They connect candidates with partner companies, streamlining the hiring process and providing opportunities in various industries.

  • Build and evolve the backend infrastructure for Dash0's Agentic AI Platform.
  • Partner with AI engineers to optimize agentic workflows.
  • Architect and evolve our security strategy for executing unknown code.

Dash0 is building an OpenTelemetry-native, simple, and AI-centric platform that eliminates vendor lock-in. They are backed by top-tier investors including Balderton Capital, Accel and Cherry Ventures and led by a founding team with decades of experience in observability.

$270,660–$270,660/yr
US 4w PTO 12w maternity 12w paternity

  • Design, build, and maintain critical backend services that power insurance platforms.
  • Optimize application architecture and observability to meet performance demands.
  • Design APIs, orchestrate data flows, create/manage databases, and build automated test suites.

Quanata aims to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. It is a customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands and has the backing of State Farm.

Europe

  • Design, build and operate backend services in TypeScript/Node and GraphQL, delivering reliable, low-latency user-facing experiences.
  • Model data, evolve relational schemas (PostgreSQL) and optimise for correctness, performance and maintainability.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot and improve production systems: focusing on observability, incident response, reliability, and operational excellence.

Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol. They secured $50 million to build an open lending network giving anyone, anywhere, access to the best possible terms and have over $10 billion in deposits, solidifying itself as the new standard for DeFi lending.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed backend systems powering platform and product capabilities.
  • Own backend services end-to-end: from architecture and implementation to monitoring and long-term reliability.
  • Work closely with product and engineering peers to actively shape product decisions — not just execute specs.

Zerion builds backend systems at the core of their products and customer-facing solutions. They are a fully remote team distributed worldwide with strong team engagement and impressive retention.

Europe

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services powering AI infrastructure and inference systems.
  • Develop and optimize distributed systems with a focus on performance, reliability, and low-latency execution.
  • Contribute to the evolution of platform architecture, ensuring scalability for growing workloads and enterprise use cases.

They are a company using an AI-powered matching process to quickly, objectively, and fairly review applications against a role's core requirements. They identify the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company.

Europe

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable, robust backend features and APIs using modern frameworks.
  • Ensure high performance and reliability across our distributed systems.
  • Contribute to systems powering authentication, billing, AI tooling, observability, connectors, and developer experience.

Mistral AI democratizes AI through high-performance, optimized, open-source and cutting-edge models, products, and solutions, with a comprehensive AI platform designed to meet enterprise needs. They are a dynamic and collaborative team passionate about AI, with a diverse workforce thriving in competitive environments and committed to driving innovation; their teams are distributed between France, USA, UK, Germany, and Singapore.

$240,000–$250,000/yr
US Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Own the backend services and data pipelines that power Grader scans end-to-end, from ingesting third-party signals to serving results reliably at scale.
  • Harden the platform before expansion by reducing latency, increasing uptime, and building the observability and alerting layer needed for scaling.
  • Establish platform foundations including shared abstractions, operational runbooks, and architectural patterns to reduce toil and provide a reliable base for other engineers.

Owner is an AI-native system that helps local business owners, starting with restaurants, succeed by replacing the many tools they use to run their business. The team is in the low hundreds with top talent from companies like Shopify and Stripe, and they operate as a remote-first, global company headquartered in San Francisco.

North America Australia

  • Own the Workstream: You own projects from conception to deployment, translating high-level product goals into stable, scalable backend architecture.
  • Master a Fluid Scope: Your work will span credit cards, loans, and foundational technical debt based on sprint needs and your own interests.
  • Solve from First Principles: You articulate the root cause, define the trade-offs of various solutions, and implement the one that serves our customers best.

Tilt is creating a new credit system that backs the working, whatever they're working toward. They have extended $4.5B+ in credit by trusting that people are "good for it."

$175,000–$200,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, test, and deploy across Gravity's payments infrastructure including gateway services, device integrations, transaction processing, and supporting systems, owning problems end-to-end.
  • Manage and evolve AWS infrastructure through infrastructure-as-code, maintaining security posture and best practices, while participating in incident response and documentation.
  • Make collaborative architectural decisions, pragmatically address technical debt, and conduct useful code reviews that catch issues and teach domain context to build a resilient team.

Gravity Payments provides payment processing services and gateway solutions for businesses and the community. The company emphasizes a collaborative, caring team culture where passion and responsibility are paramount to serving clients and the community.

Europe Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, and maintain distributed backend systems using Go, AWS, Kafka, Postgres, and DynamoDB.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and enterprise partners to define user journeys, performance goals, and success metrics.
  • Own critical parts of Connectly’s platform infrastructure — from messaging orchestration to data pipelines and API integrations.

Connectly is building the future of conversational commerce in Latin America with a focus on Whatsapp, offering a 360 engagement platform for retailers. It's a VC-backed Series B startup with a world-class team from top Silicon Valley companies, operating as a hybrid company but promoting a remote-first culture.

$160,000–$220,000/yr
Americas Unlimited PTO 12w maternity 12w paternity

  • Own technical integration delivery for priority customers — from first API call through production scale
  • Write TypeScript/Node.js code to build, customize, and debug integrations with payments systems, cloud platforms, and third-party APIs
  • Debug complex real-world issues live with customers — crawling edge cases, data pipeline failures, infra constraints

Firecrawl is the easiest way to extract data from the web. Developers use them to reliably convert URLs into LLM-ready markdown or structured data with a single API call. They are a small, fast-moving, technical team building essential infrastructure for the AI era, having hit 8 figures in ARR and 100k+ GitHub stars in just over a year.

Global

  • Provide technical leadership for our core ingestion and processing pipelines, anticipating future bottlenecks and ensuring systems scale smoothly
  • Process and manipulate telemetry data at scale, avoiding single points of failure while delivering novel approaches to telemetry volume management
  • Own platform reliability — proactively identifying risks before they become incidents and fostering a security-first culture

Dash0 is an OpenTelemetry-native company building a delightful, simple, and AI-centric platform that eliminates vendor lock-in and meaningless toil. They are backed by top-tier investors including Balderton Capital, Accel and Cherry Ventures and led by a founding team with decades of experience in observability.

$91,250–$102,200/yr
Canada 4w PTO

  • Collaborate to develop high-quality software designs and architecture
  • Maintain and advance micro-services and APIs
  • Take ownership of mid-level projects and deliver quality work independently

Velora helps nonprofit organizations thrive by offering a suite of tools for fundraising, donor management, financial tracking, and communications. They are a unified company formed by Aplos, Raisely, and Keela, with a focus on making nonprofit work easier and more impactful.

US

  • Design and implement integration patterns for connecting external healthcare and ERP systems to internal services using Kotlin/Python.
  • Build secure and reliable containerized backend services on GCP, ensuring data flows comply with healthcare regulations like HIPAA.
  • Collaborate with Data Engineering and external partners on API design, monitoring, and troubleshooting to maintain integration layer reliability.

Prolaio is a healthcare technology company focused on creating a connected data platform for precision cardiology to improve patient care and outcomes. It operates as a collaborative, science-focused startup aiming to make heart care more effective and efficient.

Global

  • Design, document, and implement quality backend architectures, services, and tooling using the CosmosSDK / CometBFT stack.
  • Develop high-quality, performant, modern, clean, and readable code within tight deadlines while working collaboratively with engineering, design, and product teams.
  • Own the development and maintenance of the project from ideation to deployment, contributing ideas that add value to the product roadmap and company goals.

Saga is a protocol for automatically provisioning application-specific blockchains in the multiverse, focusing on gaming and entertainment chains. The company is a flexible, remote team of veteran web3 entrepreneurs and builders from companies like Ignite (Tendermint), Apple, and NVIDIA.