Software Engineer - Backend

Remote (United States)

About the Role

This opportunity is for a Backend Software Engineer focused on building scalable systems that turn source code into human-readable content. The role involves working on a compiler-like engine, a highly asynchronous distributed backend server, and internal APIs that support both customer-facing products and AI-agent workflows.

You will help scale and extend backend systems, build new product functionality, and make sound architectural decisions for a fast-growing technical platform. This role requires strong backend engineering skills, distributed systems judgment, and the ability to work across backend, frontend, infrastructure, and AI-assisted development workflows.

Status: Full-Time

Pay: $175,000 – $275,000 per year

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain scalable backend systems that support source-code analysis and content generation workflows
• Contribute to an efficient and scalable backend data model
• Build and maintain critical backend integrations, including integrations with version control system providers such as GitHub
• Develop and maintain the backend web server
• Design, build, and maintain internal APIs for web application functionality
• Build and maintain backend APIs for Model Context Protocol (MCP) products
• Create backend foundations that scale with a growing platform
• Collaborate with the compiler/transpiler team on content data models and asynchronous task orchestration
• Design distributed implementations for high-volume task orchestration and constrained external API calls
• Identify scalability, correctness, and maintainability risks early
• Write clean, well-structured code that is readable by both humans and AI-assisted tools
• Build systems with robust tests that are easy to verify and maintain
• Use agentic coding tools as a core part of the development workflow to accelerate delivery
• Apply architectural judgment to validate, guide, and extend AI-generated code
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to design internal APIs and important interface contracts
• Help model data communicated between backend and frontend systems
• Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams on distributed task orchestration, containers, and distributed job execution
• Communicate clearly across engineering teams and key technical interfaces

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 3–5+ years of backend engineering experience; 7+ years preferred
• Experience building and scaling backend systems
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including queuing, consistency tradeoffs, and asynchronous task orchestration
• Proficiency with Python
• Experience with at least one statically typed language such as Rust, Go, Java, or C++
• Strong data-structure-oriented design skills, including careful thinking around types, contracts, and correctness
• Strong API design instincts, including the ability to define clean, stable interfaces that are easy to consume and hard to misuse
• Strong experience with asynchronous programming paradigms
• Strong understanding of relational database data model design
• Strong architectural judgment and ability to identify fragile code or tests before they become problems
• Experience building monitoring, logging, and testing into larger backend systems
• Experience building and maintaining REST APIs at scale
• Experience with task orchestration and distributed job queue technologies
• Comfort using AI-assisted development and agentic coding tools as productivity multipliers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building MCP-style service interfaces
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with identity and access management systems and integrations
• Experience working with LLM model APIs and agent toolchains
• Understanding of how context flows through agentic systems

Work Environment

• Remote work option or Austin, TX location
• Fast-growing startup environment with a close-knit engineering team
• Culture focused on delivery speed, flexibility, autonomy, transparency, experimentation, iteration, and pragmatic engineering
• Opportunity to work at the intersection of language theory, compiler design, generative AI, and software development workflows
• Quarterly team offsites

Benefits

• Competitive cash compensation and equity
• Flexible work culture
• Unlimited time off
• 12 paid company holidays
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• FSA accounts
• 401(k) retirement accounts with Traditional, Roth, or both options