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Backend Engineer — San Francisco (Hybrid or Remote)

Backend Engineer — San Francisco (Hybrid or Remote)🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $170,000–$200,000🗓 2026-09-26

Core

Backend Engineer building scalable AI-powered writing and productivity tools, including plagiarism detection and citation workflows for educational platforms.

Role type

Senior Backend Engineer (AI/LLM integration)

Builds

High-load backend services, scalable APIs, and AI-driven features for student writing tools

Domain

EdTech + AI/LLM

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Java, Spring Boot, Python, REST APIs, GraphQL, microservices, Kafka, RabbitMQ, WebSocket, system scaling, algorithm design, LLM integration

Preferred skills

LLM frameworks (OpenAI, Anthropic), LangChain, Langraph, mentoring

Technologies

Java, Spring Boot, Python, Kafka, RabbitMQ, GraphQL, WebSocket, OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, Langraph

Responsibilities

Design scalable APIs and services, build and integrate AI-powered features, improve performance and system architecture, collaborate with product and AI teams, mentor engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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