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$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.

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US

  • Design, build, and maintain backend services using Go and cloud-native technologies.
  • Contribute to building scalable systems that support healthcare data and transactions.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and architecture teams to deliver features end-to-end.

Nomi Health is rebuilding the healthcare system by providing clear prices, faster payments, and data to help employers make better decisions. The company has over 300 employees and fosters a culture of challenging the status quo and building something better together.

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.

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.

Europe

  • Design, build, and maintain robust backend and infrastructure systems using Golang and Java.
  • Work closely with client teams, explaining technical decisions and translating complex engineering concepts.
  • Deploy and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP using Kubernetes, Terraform, and Flux.

YLD helps clients build skills and capabilities to stay ahead of the competition. They are a remote-first consultancy specializing in software engineering, product design, and data with teams across London, Lisbon, and Porto, that creates digital solutions to deliver value.

$167,249–$216,000/yr
US

  • Own and deliver complex projects across the enrollment and early member journey.
  • Design and evolve scalable backend systems that power enrollment workflows.
  • Partner closely with product, design, data, and operations to identify high-impact opportunities.

Virta Health aims to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people through technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care. They have raised over $350 million and partner with large health plans and employers.

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.

$180,000–$225,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO 16w maternity 16w paternity

  • Work alongside full-stack engineers to ensure product functionality is scalable and reliable.
  • Partner closely with product and engineering teammates to design, build, and operate backend systems.
  • Take ownership of backend and systems aspects of product features from early design through production and scale.

Vesta is rebuilding the mortgage LOS (Loan Origination System) from the ground up with an AI-augmented platform. They have raised $55M from top tier investors and value humility, empathy, self-awareness, and an orientation towards action on their team.

US Canada

  • Design, build, and maintain backend services using AI as a collaborator.
  • Use agentic workflows to increase delivery velocity without sacrificing quality.
  • Help define and codify AI-native engineering practices for the Devices Cloud team.

Life360's mission is to keep people close to the ones they love through their mobile app and Tile tracking devices. They empower members to protect the people, pets, and things they care about most, serving approximately 91.6 million monthly active users across more than 180 countries.

$150,000–$200,000/yr
Europe Unlimited PTO 11w maternity

  • Design and build distributed systems in Go that help customers send timely, relevant messages at scale
  • Collaborate across teams to debug issues and deliver reliable solutions
  • Own problems end to end - from architecture and schema design to testing, deployment, and monitoring

Customer.io's platform is used by over 8,000 companies – from scrappy startups to global brands – to send billions of emails, push notifications, in-app messages, and SMS every day. Under the hood: Go, React, Ember and AI help them ship fast and scale with confidence.

Global

  • Design, architect, implement, review, and test frameworks, libraries, tools, and services primarily using Go.
  • Participate in requirement, design, planning, and retrospective meetings as an integral part of an Agile software development team.
  • Contribute to successful sprints by implementing items contributing to overall team goals.

Mirantis is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment.

$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.

India

  • Build the foundational, reusable services that every other JumpCloud product relies on to function securely and efficiently.
  • Deepen your expertise in Go, AWS, and Kubernetes while gaining broad architectural exposure by adapting to different teams and tech challenges.
  • Perfect for a versatile engineer who loves solving core infrastructure problems, building common frameworks, and thrives in a dynamic, flexible environment.

JumpCloud delivers a unified open directory platform that makes it easy to securely manage identities, devices, and access across your organization. With JumpCloud, IT teams and MSPs enable users to work securely from anywhere and manage their Windows, Apple, Linux, and Android devices from a single platform.

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.

$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.

  • Design, develop, and implement highly scalable and reliable full-stack applications.
  • Work extensively with AWS Cloud Services, including EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, SQS, and SNS.
  • Manage and deploy containerized applications using Kubernetes, ensuring high availability and performance.

JumpCloud delivers a unified open directory platform that makes it easy to securely manage identities, devices, and access across your organization. JumpCloud is a remote-first company that enables users to work securely from anywhere and manage their devices from a single platform; they are out-of-the-box thinkers.

Europe 5w PTO

  • Build robust and reliable backend systems and APIs that power our growth.
  • Work with Go, Kafka, Kubernetes, Postgres, and MongoDB.
  • Design and implement technical solutions within existing architectures and standards.

UW aims to simplify utilities by providing them in one place, offering savings on energy, broadband, mobile, and insurance. They are focused on doubling in size and helping people save time and money with a commitment to innovation and tackling scale-driven problems.

US

  • Design and implement core backend systems and integrations that power the product.
  • Design and build our data platform (orchestration, pipelines, developer workflows)
  • Create scalable systems for data ingestion, transformation, and access

Avantos is building the AI-native operating system for financial services, transforming fragmented data into a single, intelligent system. They power workflows, automation, and decision-making as a product-led, fast-moving team in AI, fintech, and infrastructure.

  • 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.

US Canada

  • Translate high-level business problems into functional AI solutions.
  • Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that deploy AI features.
  • Implement scalable backend architecture supporting AI workflows and data pipelines.

Forward Financing is a financial technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts. They aim to unlock the capital for small businesses across America and are recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In Boston. The company is focused on employee investment and long-term success.

Europe 6w PTO

  • Enhancing the querying experience through improving how queries are transformed, routed, and delivered at scale
  • Influencing the design of our microservice architecture
  • Supporting the reliability, scalability, and operations of data sources in Grafana Cloud

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse with more than 20M users of Grafana around the globe. They help more than 3,000 companies manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, with a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work.