Back End Developer

Senior Backend Engineer (AI Platform)
📍Location: New York, NY💰 Compensation: $160,000–$240,000 Base + Equity + Bonus🕒Employment Type: Full-time
About the Opportunity Surge Group is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join a high-growth AI technology company building next-generation enterprise intelligence platforms.
This role is ideal for an experienced backend engineer who enjoys solving large-scale technical challenges, designing distributed systems, and building reliable infrastructure that powers AI- driven products. You'll work alongside experienced engineers and AI specialists to develop scalable backend services, data pipelines, and APIs used by enterprise customers.
This is a hands-on engineering role with significant ownership and the opportunity to influence architecture, product direction, and engineering standards.
What You'll Be Doing Design, build, and scale backend services using Python and Go.Architect APIs and distributed systems supporting AI-powered applications.Develop scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines.Build reliable, high-performance backend infrastructure.Collaborate closely with AI and Machine Learning engineers to deploy intelligent featuresinto production.Design systems for scalability, observability, fault tolerance, and performance.Drive architectural decisions and establish best practices for backend engineering.Mentor engineers through technical leadership and code reviews.Own projects from design through production deployment.
What We're Looking For 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.Strong Python development experience.Experience building scalable distributed systems and microservices.Strong understanding of API design and backend architecture.Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases.Strong computer science fundamentals and system design skills.Comfortable owning systems end-to-end.Startup or high-growth technology company experience is highly preferred.
Preferred Experience Go (Golang)KubernetesGraph databasesRAG or GenAI applicationsAI/ML platformsStreaming or real-time data systemsEnterprise SaaSCloud infrastructure (AWS)
What Makes You Successful Strong engineering ownership.Excellent problem-solving ability.Architect-first mindset while remaining hands-on.Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments.Passionate about building scalable production systems.
If you're excited about building AI infrastructure and solving complex engineering problems at scale, we'd love to hear from you.