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  • Envision and build scalable backend architecture and AI applications for guest-host communication.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with design, product, and data science teams.
  • Mentor engineers and lead technical strategy for high-impact systems.

Backend Engineering Artificial Intelligence System Architecture Cross-functional Collaboration Technical Leadership

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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.

Africa Global

  • Own the end-to-end technical architecture of Sparkrock's SIS platform, spanning legacy VB6/COM/T-SQL systems and modern C# layers.
  • Direct AI coding agents (Claude Code) to implement architectural decisions — you design, agents build.
  • Define and enforce architectural guardrails: domain boundaries, coding conventions, and integration patterns for AI agents to follow.

Sparkrock helps social benefit organizations like nonprofits, school boards, and government agencies reach their full potential through technology. The company is a best-in-class, 100% remote organization with the brightest talent from around the world.

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.

United States

  • Set the technical direction for backend platform architecture, owning decisions spanning integrations, data, messaging, and orchestration.
  • Drive cross-functional initiatives with AI Engineering, Product, and Integrations leadership, shaping platform strategy and roadmap.
  • Define org-wide engineering standards for backend service design, data modeling, and operational excellence while mentoring engineers across the organization.

Conversica builds AI-powered solutions that help businesses engage customers more effectively. You'll join a small, experienced platform engineering team in a remote-first company.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Own high-impact lifecycle initiatives end-to-end, from ambiguous goals to launch, covering guest journeys like activation, reactivation, and loyalty.
  • Build reliable messaging and data pipelines for campaign execution across email, SMS, and push at scale.
  • Ship AI-assisted capabilities to make lifecycle marketing more autonomous, with production-ready systems.

Owner is an AI-native platform that helps local business owners succeed, starting with restaurants. The company is a remote-first, global organization with a team in the low hundreds, featuring talent from top SMB software companies like Shopify and DoorDash.

Europe 5w PTO

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that power Chattermill’s core analytics platform.
  • Architect reliable, maintainable distributed systems and contribute to the evolution of backend service design and infrastructure.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of backend engineering workstreams, from technical scoping and architecture through to implementation, testing, observability, and production support.

Chattermill helps large successful brands like Uber, Amazon, and Wise put their customers at the centre of everything they do. Using best-in-class tech in a fast-evolving AI space, their Customer Experience Intelligence platform continuously analyses feedback to help clients identify what to do next.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Set technical direction for the personalization platform, building an autonomous, agent-assisted future.
  • Build the intelligence layer combining LLM and classic ML to personalize marketing at scale.
  • Own high-leverage problems like reliable high-volume sending, experimentation, and data quality.

Owner is an AI-native system that helps local business owners succeed, starting with restaurants. It powers everything from website, online ordering, CRM, and POS; the team is in the low hundreds with talent from top SMB software companies.

US

  • Write behavioral specs, architectural constraints, and feature requirements that agents implement against.
  • Build and maintain harness infrastructure including structural tests, linting rules, and CI gates.
  • Design validation systems where agents write the tests and you verify features work from the user's perspective.

Bolo.ai builds generative AI systems for the energy industry, making daily work faster, safer, and better for heavy industry workers. We have Fortune 500 contracts, production deployments, and growing enterprise demand, and we're scaling with a small, senior-leaning engineering team.

US

  • Directly manage a pod of engineers responsible for Canary's Voice AI product.
  • Set an example as an IC in terms of both the quality and velocity of code that you ship.
  • Own the architecture and its evolution across telephony integrations, real-time AI components and integration points.

Canary Technologies is changing the game for hotels with modern software powered by their hospitality-specific AI platform. They are utilized by 20,000+ hoteliers in 100+ countries and is backed by top Silicon Valley investors like Y Combinator, F-Prime, Brighton Park Capital and Insight Partners.

US

  • Lead the development of new mechanisms for monitoring the health of data from edge to cloud.
  • Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy across products and platforms.
  • Act as a technical mentor for engineers at all levels and contribute to key codebases.

Johnson Controls is a global leader in thermal management, mission-critical building systems, energy efficiency, and decarbonization. With over 140 years of experience, the company employs a large workforce and fosters a culture of innovation and sustainability.

Global

  • Build features and integrations with partner systems.
  • Act as a backend subject matter expert and mentor.
  • Focus on scalable, high-quality backend development.

Vantage provides cloud cost management solutions to help companies optimize their infrastructure spending. They are a growing engineering-focused team that values mentorship and technical excellence.

United States Unlimited PTO

  • Design and build scalable backend systems powering AI agents in real-time enterprise environments.
  • Develop agent orchestration frameworks and low-latency inference pipelines integrating LLMs and SLMs.
  • Build robust APIs and work with cross-functional teams to productionize agentic AI at scale.

Level AI is an AI-native platform that helps enterprises transform contact centers into engines of customer intelligence and operational efficiency. The company is a Series C startup backed by Battery Ventures and ENIAC, based in Mountain View, California, with a globally distributed team.

US

  • Own end-to-end ARI operations, including rate validation, parity defense, and inventory management to maintain supply health.
  • Lead connectivity strategy across PMS, CRS, GDS, and channel managers, surfacing integration options for Product and Engineering.
  • Drive Supply API integration programs from scoping to production, coordinating across teams to scale the supplier network.

Engine is transforming business travel into a seamless, personalized experience by combining corporate travel, a charge card, and spend management on one platform. Backed by Telescope Partners, Blackstone, and Permira, they support over 30,000 companies and 1 million travelers, and have been recognized as one of the fastest-growing travel and fintech platforms in North America.

Americas

  • Lead a multi-team product area, owning objectives and engineering plans that deliver company priorities.
  • Develop engineering managers through coaching, feedback, and setting high standards for engineering practices.
  • Drive technical excellence across the area, ensuring reliable systems and cross-functional partnership with PM and Design.

ClassDojo aims to give every child an education they love by building a communication network used in most US schools and globally. They are a small, high-talent-density team from leading tech companies, valuing ownership, speed, and thoughtful decision-making.

Global

  • Build and scale the core platform powering bookings, pricing, payments, guest experiences, and operations.
  • Create powerful automations and AI-powered systems to eliminate manual work and streamline operations.
  • Design API-first architecture and integrate with key platforms like Airbnb, Stripe, Twilio, and OpenAI.

The Flex is building the operating system for modern renting, enabling anyone to live anywhere, anytime without friction through their proprietary automation platform Base360.ai. They are a small, remote-first team focused on extreme ownership and building innovative technology for global scaling.

India

  • Design end-to-end AI integration architectures connecting LLM APIs, vector databases, and inference systems to existing backend infrastructure.
  • Build reusable ML infrastructure components like feature pipelines, model serving layers, and evaluation frameworks that multiple portfolio companies standardize on.
  • Establish AI system integration best practices and governance patterns that become repeatable playbooks across the holding company.

Emergence is a thematic holding company backed by the Pritzker Organization focused exclusively on acquiring and scaling category-defining software businesses. They invest in focused portfolios, specialized operating groups with deep domain expertise and proven playbooks.

US Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Own the technical delivery of mission critical, event based payment systems handling millions of daily transactions; responsible for the expansion of architectural decisions.
  • Define “what good looks like” by establishing modern standards of AI-enabled workflows, metric driven stewardship required for global scale payments systems reliability.
  • Shape engineering and product strategy jointly, as a bridge between cross functions, co-author of technical roadmaps, guardian of technical backlogs and a driving force behind engineering standards.

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

$240,000–$270,000/yr
US

  • Lead and scale a high-performing engineering organization by building deep trust.
  • Engage deeply and credibly in system design and architecture discussions.
  • Pioneer the integration of AI and agentic capabilities into our software development lifecycle.

HopSkipDrive is creating opportunity for all through mobility. They are the leader in safe, fast, and simple supplemental student transportation through their marketplace, connecting kids to highly-vetted caregivers on wheels. Founded by three moms, they've now facilitated more than five million rides across over over 20 states and continue to grow rapidly.

$101,000–$115,500/yr
US

  • Design, build, and optimize integrations, automations, and AI-driven workflows that power our enterprise data and business operations.
  • Develop resilient data pipelines between core platforms (Salesforce, NetSuite, Snowflake, Slack).
  • Implement AI-enabled capabilities that reduce manual work and accelerate insights.

Tebra is an all-in-one EHR+ platform built exclusively for independent healthcare practices. They connect EHR software, billing, automation, telehealth solution, and marketing to streamline operations and reduce burnout, serving over 42,000 private practices.

US

  • Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform infrastructure and scalability.
  • Design and review complex system architectures that support company growth.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance to elevate engineering capabilities.

PadSplit operates a marketplace for affordable shared housing. It is a growing company with an engineering-focused culture that values collaboration and technical excellence.