Backend Engineer JN -062026-177230

To Apply for this Job Click Here Backend Engineer – Remote (Eastern Time Zone) Join an innovative technology startup building AI-driven tools for the staffing and recruiting industry. This is a unique opportunity to shape the core infrastructure of a VC-backed team delivering meaningful productivity gains for recruiters at enterprise clients. Collaborate closely with a visionary founding team and help deliver secure, real-world automations that redefine how search firms operate. This role is open to remote candidates in the Eastern Time Zone. Backend Engineer Benefits & Compensation Strong six figure competitive compensation and meaningful equity stake Opportunity to take ownership of critical backend systems impacting major search firms Work with a forward-thinking, collaborative founding and engineering team Build solutions held to the highest security standards (SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA) Backend Engineer Requirements & Qualifications Hands-on experience building with LLMs in production, including orchestration and evaluation of non-deterministic systems — with a heavy emphasis on prompt engineering across a wide range of use cases Strong backend fundamentals using Python: API design, data modeling, async/event-driven patterns, and PostgreSQL databases Proven track record of shipping highly reliable software in high-ownership environments (startup experience a plus) Comfort with real-world software integrations: OAuth, webhooks, rate limits, proprietary APIs, and modern tooling including MCPs Deep understanding of reliability and data security; proactive about handling failure modes A genuine eagerness to learn and adapt — candidates who are unwilling to grow need not apply Backend Engineer Must-Have Tools & Skills Claude Code or Codex Familiarity with Temporal for workflow orchestration and Braintrust for QA/evaluation Backend Engineer Preferred Background & Skills Experience with agent/tool-use orchestration or eval-driven development Previous work integrating with calendar, email, CRM, ATS, or TRM platforms General data modeling experience (entity-relationship or equivalent) Python, Postgres, GitHub Backend Engineer Day-to-Day Responsibilities Design and maintain LLM pipelines through extensive prompt engineering, ensuring solutions work seamlessly across a wide variety of recruiter use cases without requiring clients to manually configure or adjust settings Deliver a frictionless onboarding experience — the goal is one onboarding call where clients can define how they want the product to work, and it works Build robust two-way integrations with email, calendar, and recruiting platforms, including custom work on proprietary client tooling and the latest API and MCP-based integrations Develop and refine systems to guarantee high reliability and data security — covering queuing, retries, idempotency, per-firm data isolation, and review-before-send approval flows Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to shape the core architecture and quickly deliver impactful solutions, with significant data expansion on the horizon Continuously improve automation systems that help recruiters save time and increase productivity If you're passionate about building secure, high-impact AI systems, thrive in fast-moving environments, and want to shape the tools trusted by leading recruiting firms — we encourage you to apply. JOB ID : 177230 #post Jaimielynne Gegner To Apply for this Job Click Here , $150,000 - $200,000,