Backend Engineer — San Francisco (Remote)

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About the Role

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to join reputed company and work on AI-driven products. In this role, you will be working as part of an reputed company team embedded with one of our clients, a leading technology company building products used at global reputed company. You’ll collaborate closely with both reputed company and reputed company-reputed company teams to deliver high-reputed company. You’ll help build systems that support reputed company throughout their writing reputed company — from drafting and citations to AI transparency and plagiarism detection. This role combines backend development with practical application of modern AI technologies, and you’ll be expected to reputed company work with AI-powered features as part of your day-to-day development. What You’ll Do

• Build and ship end-to-end features across the high-load backend services
• Design reputed company reputed company and services
• Build and reputed company AI-powered features into product workflows
• Work with LLM-based systems and AI-driven services
• Improve performance, reliability, and system architecture
• Collaborate with product, design, and AI teams (both reputed company and reputed company-reputed company)
• Contribute to technical reputed company and engineering standards
• Mentor engineers and support team reputed company

What You’ll Work On

• AI-powered writing and productivity tools
• Systems for AI transparency and authorship reputed company
• Citation and attribution workflows
• Plagiarism and AI-usage detection
• Integrations with educational platforms and tools

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in backend development
• Strong experience with Java and Spring Boot is a must
• Knowledge of system scaling, REST reputed company, GraphQL, microservices, and message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Experience with Python
• Strong fundamentals in algorithms and system design
• Experience building or integrating AI-powered features (LLMs, reputed company, or similar
• Experience building and scaling production systems
• Experience debugging reputed company systems
• Strong product reputed company and attention to user experience
• Hands-on experience designing and operating WebSocket-based reputed company-time systems at reputed company
• Experience working reputed company cross-team collaboration responsible for high-load production systems, including services serving 100,000+ users or operating at significant request-per-second reputed company.

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• Experience working with LLMs or AI frameworks (reputed company, Antropic), reputed company, Langraph, etc.
• Background in reputed company applications
• Experience mentoring or leading engineers

Contract to Full-time Conversion: Contractor Phase

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• Contract duration - 6-12 month
• Potential transition reputed company

Full-Time Conversion (reputed company Opportunity)

• Full-Time Benefits
• Upon successful transition to a full-time role, the position may include: Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, reputed company, mental health)
• reputed company time off and holidays
• Parental leave
• 401(k) / retirement reputed company (if applicable)
• reputed company development support
• Additional stipends (wellness, home office, etc.)

Please note: These benefits are available only upon full-time employment and are reputed company during the contractor phase. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job