Backend Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote, Singapore

Company

Building proactive AI-native applications that help users manage conversations, errands, organization, and workflows with minimal prompting.

What you will do

• Build and operate backend systems that serve AI-powered product features in production.
• Design inference pipelines, orchestration layers, and service boundaries around language and multimodal models.
• Develop fast, stable, and observable APIs for mobile and desktop clients.
• Own monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response for production services.
• Optimize inference latency and throughput through caching, batching, and streaming.

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering fundamentals in production environments.
• Experience operating high-throughput, low-latency services.
• Familiarity with AI inference patterns, including LLMs, embeddings, and multimodal models.
• Ability to debug distributed systems under load and learn from production behavior.
• Experience or proficiency with Python, Node.js, PyTorch, SQL, NoSQL, Kubernetes, and Docker.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with interviews conducted through virtual meetings and/or onsite sessions.
• Hands-on, high-talent-density team operating with rapid decision-making and collective judgment.
• Independent execution balanced with a focus on high-quality delivery and learning from production results.
• Prompt hiring decisions after a process of three to four interviews.

Hiring process

• Applications are evaluated by technical team members.
• Expect three, and no more than four, interviews conducted virtually and/or onsite.
• A prompt decision follows the interview process.