Senior Backend Engineer

FlexAI is a company focused on building and deploying AI solutions. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to architect and build core backend systems for their AI compute and PaaS platform, with a focus on distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and develop high-performance Golang services for FlexAI's AI PaaS and infrastructure platform
• Build internal APIs powering model deployment, job scheduling, and compute lifecycle management
• Develop components interfacing with GPU/compute infrastructure and AI runtimes
• Design and scale microservices and event-driven systems for high-throughput AI workloads
• Optimize for low latency, high concurrency, and fault tolerance
• Implement service-to-service communication (gRPC/REST, message queues, async pipelines)
• Drive reliability, observability, and resilience across services
• Collaborate with AI/ML and Runtime teams to integrate systems with training pipelines, inference infrastructure, experimentation workflows, and dataset/artifact management
• Enable orchestration across cloud and on-prem environments
• Build abstractions that simplify AI infrastructure consumption
• Design cloud-native, Kubernetes-native services
• Work with DevOps/SRE on CI/CD, deployment automation, and scalability
• Contribute to architecture decisions for multi-region, multi-cloud infrastructure
• Improve monitoring, logging, and diagnostics
• Lead architecture reviews and set engineering standards
• Mentor engineers and guide complex problem-solving
• Drive long-term roadmap for backend infrastructure and AI platform capabilities
• Partner with Product, Runtime, and Infra leadership to translate requirements into scalable systems