Role overview

Backend Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

Readable role content extracted into sections for faster review.

What Makes This Role Unique

  • Foundation for AI innovation: Build the content infrastructure that enables our AI brain to process the data that matters.
  • Enterprise-scale challenges: Handle content ingestion from global industry elading companies with diverse requirements
  • Ownership: Your decisions impact how thousands of professionals access business-critical insights
  • Cross-team enablement: Create and evolve the APIs and data models that empower our customer-facing product teams to innovate.

What You’ll Do

  • Connect diverse ecosystems: Build and maintain robust integrations that seamlessly ingest content from diverse enterprise systems
  • Design for scale: Create content processing systems that handle millions of documents while maintaining low API response times
  • Enable AI innovation: Build the data models that power our AI brain's ability to synthesize insights across massive content libraries
  • Set the technical foundation: Establish patterns, standards, and interfaces that enable product teams to rapidly build customer-facing features
  • Optimize for performance: Ensure reliable, performant content systems across all ingestion channels

What We Need

  • Back-end expertise: Strong experience designing and building distributed systems and handling large-scale content processing. We care more about your engineering fundamentals than any specific language or framework
  • Cloud-native mindset: Hands-on experience running services in modern cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar), with containerization and infrastructure as code. Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices is important
  • Integration mastery: Proven track record of building reliable APIs and integration patterns for diverse data sources and formats
  • System thinking: Ability to design scalable, maintainable data models that empower other teams to build on top of them
  • Collaboration & curiosity: Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach, with a curious, innovative mindset that thrives in cross-functional teams with product and design
  • Nice to have: Experience with search technologies such as Elasticsearch, exposure to front-end development (React/TypeScript or similar), deeper familiarity with AWS services
Similar roles

Keep a backup shortlist.

Browse stack
FocusBackend EngineeringRole area
Seniority signalSeniorCandidate level
StackAWS, Azure, CI/CDPrimary skills
Location1 accepted countryEligibility

Stack

Use these tags to compare similar remote roles.

Location eligibility

Candidates should apply only when their profile country is listed here.

Your profileCountry not setSign in to check your country against this role.

Hiring flow

WithMira shows the role, then sends candidates to the company application.

1Check role fit, stack, and location eligibility in WithMira.
2Open the company application page from the tracked apply link.
3Save the role or subscribe for similar opportunities before leaving.