Backend Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Serbia.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain scalable backend systems that provide AI-driven functionalities in a production setting.

• Create high-performance inference pipelines, orchestration workflows, and well-defined service boundaries around machine learning models.

• Take responsibility for system health and observability, encompassing performance monitoring, structured logging, alerting, and incident management.

• Enhance latency and throughput through strategic caching, request batching, and response streaming.

• Work alongside client and machine learning engineers to produce stable, high-efficiency APIs for mobile and desktop applications.

• Manage the inference and orchestration layer that supports intelligent features across client platforms.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated expertise in core backend software engineering within production settings.

• Experience with Python and Node.js.

• Familiarity with infrastructure tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Practical experience in building and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency distributed microservices.

• Strong understanding of contemporary AI inference methodologies, including LLMs, vector embeddings, and multimodal architectures.

• Direct experience in debugging and profiling complex distributed systems under significant load.

• Knowledge of commercial AI APIs like OpenAI and Anthropic.

• Awareness of self-hosted open-source models.

• Production-oriented mindset with a focus on deployment, monitoring live system performance, and rapid iteration.

🏝️ Benefits

• Significant equity opportunities.

• Flexible compensation structure.

• Fully remote working arrangements.

• Global team collaboration.

• Strong sense of ownership.

• Visible impact on projects.

• Chance to collaborate with a small founding team.

• High-quality engineering environment.

• Opportunity to contribute to a greenfield AI email product developed from the ground up.