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Staff Backend Engineer

AIR

$160,000 - $240,000
Nov 20, 2025
Remote, US
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Air is a Creative Ops System for creative teams. Our product automates the mindless tasks that creatives and marketers do every day to manage content and unlocks creativity through image recognition, automated versioning, and approval workflows.

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.

Responsibilities

  • play a pivotal role in building intelligent systems that power our platform, delivering cutting-edge search and discovery capabilities to teams worldwide
  • 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
  • designing robust data models
  • implementing event-driven architectures
  • scaling backend infrastructure to support sophisticated AI enrichment pipelines
  • prioritize and navigate ambiguities
  • moving fast and pivoting based on quick learnings, adapting to changing requirements with agility

Other

  • collaborating with product managers and engineers
  • demonstrated capacity to clearly communicate complex technical challenges and propose effective solutions
  • This is a remote role.
  • We communicate with empathy. We speak directly, listen thoughtfully, and ask questions.
  • We value unique contributions and welcome people of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to join us at Air.