Software Development Engineer I - Backend

Summary

Join interface.ai, a leading AI provider for banks and credit unions, as a Backend Engineer on the Core Platform team. This team builds and scales the foundational systems powering all AI-driven products. You will design and implement backend services, write performant and secure code, build and maintain APIs, and collaborate with other teams. This hands-on role offers significant growth opportunities in backend systems, distributed architecture, and infrastructure engineering. The position is remote in India and requires 1-3 years of backend engineering experience. You will contribute to a fast-moving, product-driven culture.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 1–3 years of backend engineering experience, ideally in platform or service-oriented roles
• Proficiency in at least two modern backend programming languages (Node.js, Go, Python, Java)
• Experience working with RESTful APIs, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.), and containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Understanding of service architecture, data modeling, and system design fundamentals
• Solid grasp of debugging, testing, and monitoring backend applications in production

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services that power cross-cutting features like knowledge, content, configuration, identity, access control, and audit
• Write performant, secure, and testable code using js, Go, or Python
• Build and maintain APIs, service orchestration layers, and shared infrastructure modules
• Collaborate with platform, ML, and product teams to ensure backend systems are flexible, resilient, and developer-friendly
• Contribute to service monitoring, alerting, and production readiness practices across core systems
• Participate in code reviews, documentation, sprint planning, and internal platform adoption initiatives

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to platform engineering, dev tools, or internal infrastructure services
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Pulumi
• Familiarity with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Prior work in B2B SaaS, compliance-heavy, or AI-enabled product environments

Benefits

• Build foundational systems that power every AI experience across the company
• Work closely with senior engineers and technical leadership in a high-ownership environment
• Contribute to a fast-moving, product-driven culture where platform thinking is a first-class priority
• Accelerate your growth in backend systems, distributed architecture, and infrastructure engineering