Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Air, a Creative Ops System for creative teams, as our Staff Backend Engineer and help shape the future of creative work. You will play a pivotal role in building intelligent systems that power our platform, delivering cutting-edge search and discovery capabilities. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll work closely with our cofounders, product, and other cross-functional teams to design robust, scalable systems integrating AI capabilities. This role requires extensive experience in backend engineering and Node.js/Typescript, a passion for designing robust data models, and experience scaling backend infrastructure. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers, adapt to changing requirements, and build resilient, scalable systems. This is a remote role with a competitive compensation package and benefits.

Requirements

• 8+ years experience working with Node.js and TypeScript in a professional capacity
• Extensive experience designing and implementing distributed backend services and APIs
• Strong understanding of data modeling concepts and experience with AWS Aurora, Postgres, and Elasticsearch
• Proven experience with event-driven architectures, message queues, and distributed systems
• Deep knowledge of AWS services (Lambda, S3, EC2, RDS, SQS, SNS, etc.) and cloud infrastructure
• Experience designing and maintaining systems that support ML pipelines and large-scale data processing
• Track record of scaling backend infrastructure to handle increasing load and complexity
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly communicate complex technical challenges and propose effective solutions

Responsibilities

• Help shape the future of creative work as our Staff Backend Engineer
• As a Staff Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in building intelligent systems that power our platform, delivering cutting-edge search and discovery capabilities to teams worldwide
• You’ll join a talented team of engineers and work closely with our cofounders, product, and other cross-functional teams
• You’ll have the opportunity to lead the design of robust, scalable systems that integrate AI capabilities into our core platform, balancing strong engineering fundamentals with a practical understanding of product goals and constraints

Benefits

• Air contributes 90% to medical, dental, and vision insurance and 75% to dependent coverage
• Employees also have life insurance, disability insurance, and membership to One Medical
• We offer a generous work from home stipend, professional development reimbursement, and unlimited vacation days