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Senior Backend Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of backend engineering
  • gRPC and REST API design
  • SQL and NoSQL schema and query tuning
  • Kubernetes, Docker and microservices on AWS, GCP or Azure

Responsibilities

  • Design and scale the backend for agent products
  • Work with ML and frontend engineers to bring agents into production
  • Cut latency and raise reliability on high-volume services
  • Handle large data volumes efficiently and safely

Key facts

  • Remote from: United States
  • Full time
  • Senior (5-10 years)
  • Back-End Engineer
  • $205K – $270K / year
  • English

Hard skills

About the company

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Mural Group

  • Staffing & Recruiting
  • 11–50
Mural Group is a multi-stage recruiting firm specializing in Recruitment Process Outsourcing, Contingent and Retained search. We partner with founders and executives to carefully craft teams that power industry changing, early stage, and growth stage businesses. Mural doesn't operate like most recruiting firms. We operate like in-house recruiting partners – hyper-focused on building and executing a hiring strategy that aligns with your business objectives.

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Job description

Location: Remote (US)

Pay: $205,000–$270,000 + equity

A late-stage, venture-backed enterprise AI company needs a senior backend engineer for the services behind its AI agents. These agents talk to people in real time, so latency and reliability are the product.

What you'll do

  • Design and scale the backend for agent products

  • Work with ML and frontend engineers to bring agents into production

  • Cut latency and raise reliability on high-volume services

  • Handle large data volumes efficiently and safely

  • Share on-call for the services you own

What you bring

  • 5+ years of backend engineering

  • gRPC and REST API design

  • SQL and NoSQL schema and query tuning

  • Kubernetes, Docker and microservices on AWS, GCP or Azure

  • Experience building AI or virtual agent systems

  • BS in Computer Science

Nice to have: queues and distributed orchestration; Python with FastAPI, Flask or Django

Mural Group is recruiting for this role on behalf of a client. Apply here and a Mural recruiter will be in touch.

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