April 24, 2026
Backend Engineer
Senior • Hybrid
120,000 - 250,000 USD/yr
San Francisco, CA
Who We Are
Lightning AI is the company behind PyTorch Lightning. Founded in 2019, we build an end-to-end platform for developing, training, and deploying AI systems—designed to take ideas from research to production with less friction.
Through our merger with Voltage Park, a neocloud and AI Factory, Lightning AI combines developer-first software with cost-efficient, large-scale compute. Teams get the tools they need for experimentation, training, and production inference, with security, observability, and control built in.
We serve solo researchers, startups, and large enterprises. Lightning AI operates globally with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and London, and is backed by Coatue, Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Firstminute.
Our Values
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Move Fast: We act with speed and precision, breaking down big challenges into achievable steps.
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Focus: We complete one goal at a time with care, collaborating as a team to deliver features with precision.
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Balance: Sustained performance comes from rest and recovery. We ensure a healthy work-life balance to keep you at your best.
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Craftsmanship: Innovation through excellence. Every detail matters, and we take pride in mastering our craft.
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Minimal: Simplicity drives our innovation. We eliminate complexity through discipline and focus on what truly matters.
What we're looking for
We are looking for a Backend Engineer to work on developing and scaling the Lightning AI platform from the frontend, CLI, and API, to billing, security, and integrations.
We want someone who can take ownership of key features and drive development from end to end while collaborating with a super-smart team of engineers, product managers, and designers. Here, you'll build from proof of concept to release with a focus on speed, quality, and iteration.
This is an opportunity to create groundbreaking technology that will transform the machine-learning ecosystem!
You will be joining the Blue Squad and report to our Director of Engineering. This is a hybrid role based in our Bay Area office with in-office requirements of 2 days per week. The salary range for this role is $120,000 - $250,000.
What you'll do
- Write readable/testable/efficient code in Go (Golang).
- Master our technology stack to deliver new features, improve system stability, and increase overall performance.
- Partner with engineering and product leaders on developing the Lightning product while using your experience to set the technical direction for large projects.
- Evaluate, strengthen, and document technical architecture, tools, and processes.
- Champion software quality, implement automation, drive continuous delivery, and reduce time to production while proactively reducing technical debt.
- Mentor and coach engineers on system design, operating in high uncertainty, and problem-solving to create a supportive, inclusive environment where each engineer can grow.
What you'll need
- Extensive experience writing efficient, maintainable code in Go. Familiarity with best practices in testing, readability, and optimization is essential.
- Broad knowledge of backend and frontend systems, with experience building and scaling APIs, CLI tools, billing systems, and security protocols. Exposure to frontend frameworks is a plus.
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure and designing systems that are reliable, performant, and scalable. Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) is a strong advantage.
- Proven ability to take ownership of key features and drive end-to-end development
- Commitment to software quality, test automation, and continuous delivery. Experience proactively managing technical debt and speeding up time to production.
- Hands-on experience as a backend or product engineer in a SaaS technology company
- Communication and collaboration with engineers, product managers, and designers
- Ability to operate in high uncertainty and rapidly changing environments
Benefits and Perks
We offer competitive base salaries and equity with a 25% one year cliff and monthly vesting thereafter. For our international employees, we work with our EOR to pay you in your local currency and provide equitable benefits across the globe.
In the US, we offer:
- Medical, dental and vision
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Flexible paid time off including winter closure
- Paid family leave benefits
- $500 one time home office stipend
- $1,000 annual learning & development stipend
- 100% Citibike membership (NYC only)
- $45/month gym membership
- Additional various medical and mental health services
At Lightning AI, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We believe that diverse teams drive innovation and create better products. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We are dedicated to building a culture where everyone can thrive and contribute to their fullest potential.
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Warsaw, Poland
120 - 180 PLN/hr
🏢 Summary: The offer is for a Senior AI Fullstack Engineer to design and deliver production-ready, LLM-powered web applications using modern React and Next.js architecture. The role focuses on building autonomous agents, RAG systems, and AI-driven workflows integrated with enterprise-grade products. It involves end-to-end ownership of scalable AI solutions from architecture to deployment. 🗂️ Requirements: 8+ years experience as consultant or forward deployed engineer, Strong experience with Next.js (App Router), React, TypeScript, Deep understanding of Server and Client Components (RSC), Experience with streaming, caching, revalidation, Server Actions, Experience with Vercel AI SDK, LangGraph or MCP, Experience building RAG systems, Hands-on experience with Anthropic and OpenAI APIs, Experience shipping LLM-powered features to production, Practical experience with prompt engineering and structured outputs, Experience with tool calling and agent workflows, Experience with multi-turn orchestration, Understanding of token economics and context windows, Experience with prompt evaluation methods, Ability to design robust, production-ready AI systems 📃 Skills: Next.js, React, TypeScript, RSC, Vercel, LangGraph, MCP, RAG, Claude, OpenAI, Anthropic, Prompting, Streaming, ServerActions, Agents, APIs 🏢 Description: About the Role At Blazity, we are a team of React.js and Next.js experts building modern, API-first digital products for enterprise clients. We are expanding our AI capabilities—autonomous agents, AI-driven automation, and LLM-powered workflows—and are looking for a Senior AI Fullstack Engineer who can design and ship production-ready AI systems. You will work at the intersection of modern web architecture and generative AI , taking ownership of solutions delivered to real users. Our requirements Must-have Technical Excellence: 8+ years of experience as a consultant / forward deployed engineer Strong experience with Next.js (App Router), React, TypeScript Deep understanding of: Server vs Client Components (RSC) streaming, caching, revalidation, Server Actions Vercel AI SDK / LangGraph / MCP Experience building RAG systems Claude extended thinking / prompt caching / Batch APIs AI Engineering: Proven experience shipping LLM-powered features to production Hands-on with Anthropic / OpenAI APIs (messages, tool use, streaming) Practical experience with: prompt engineering (structured output, few-shot, XML) tool calling / agent workflows multi-turn orchestration Understanding of: token economics (input/output costs, context window) latency vs quality trade-offs Reliability & Quality: Experience with: prompt evaluations (LLM-as-judge, rule-based) handling hallucinations and failure modes Ability to design robust AI systems , not just prototypes Soft Skills: Strong ownership mindset Experience working directly with clients Clear communication and structured thinking (English C1) Ability to make decisions in ambiguous environments Nice-to-have: What You Will Do Ship Production Apps: Build scalable web applications using Next.js (App Router) and TypeScript , ensuring high performance and clean architecture. Engineer AI Workflows: Develop and orchestrate LLM-powered features using Anthropic and OpenAI APIs, focusing on tool use and streaming. Agentic Orchestration: Design autonomous agent loops and multi-turn workflows, knowing when to use a structured pipeline versus a dynamic agent. Optimize & Evaluate: Manage token economics (pricing, context windows) and implement prompt evaluations (LLM-as-judge, rule-based) to ensure system reliability. Collaborate: Work directly with senior engineers, founders, and client teams to shape AI capabilities from concept to production. What we offer B2B: 120 – 180 PLN/h + VAT 🔥 100% remote (Poland) 29 paid vacation days Private healthcare + sports card High-impact work on real AI systems
Technology
Shelf
Senior Backend Python Engineer
Senior
Remote
Warsaw, Poland
🏢 Summary: Senior Backend Engineer role focused on owning and designing production-grade backend systems, from ambiguous problem definition through architecture, implementation, and long-term reliability. The position emphasizes strong system design, distributed systems judgment, and hands-on cloud engineering, with full ownership of services in production. This is a product engineering role with end-to-end responsibility across backend architecture, scalability, and operational excellence. 🗂️ Requirements: Senior-level backend engineering experience in production systems, Strong Python proficiency, Experience designing and operating distributed systems, Knowledge of concurrency, failure handling, and data consistency, Hands-on cloud experience (AWS, Azure or similar), Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, Ability to design data models and perform schema design, Experience with performance tuning and scalability, Ability to design, implement, and operate backend services end-to-end, Experience using AI tools in daily engineering workflow 📃 Skills: Python, AWS, Azure, SQL, NoSQL, Concurrency, DistributedSystems, Async, APIs, Microservices, LLM, TypeScript 🏢 Description: About Shelf Shelf builds software that helps enterprises make AI work in the real world. We care about the hard part: reliable systems, clear operational logic, and production-grade engineering that makes AI useful instead of brittle. Job Description: This role is for a senior backend engineer who can own important systems, not just implement tickets. You will take ambiguous problems, design the right backend approach, ship it, and keep it healthy in production. We want someone who is strong technically, communicates clearly, and has the judgment to make systems simpler, safer, and easier to evolve over time. This is a product engineering role with real ownership from system design through production. Location – Warsaw, work from the office What You Will Own Design and ship backend services, APIs, data flows, and background processing for production systems. Turn vague requirements into concrete technical plans, trade-offs, and execution. Own services after launch: reliability, observability, performance, and incident follow-through. Make sound decisions around system boundaries, data models, interfaces, and scaling paths. Write clear technical specs, architecture notes, and diagrams when they help the team move faster. Work closely with product, frontend, and platform engineers to deliver end-to-end outcomes. Improve engineering leverage with AI tooling, automation, and internal workflows rather than using AI as a gimmick. Raise the quality bar through code review, design review, and pragmatic technical leadership. What Strong Performance Looks Like You reliably move important backend work forward without waiting to be tightly managed. Your systems are easier to operate and easier to change because of your design decisions. You communicate trade-offs clearly and make the team around you more effective. You use AI tools well: to accelerate analysis, implementation, debugging, writing, and repetitive work, while keeping a high verification bar. What We Are Looking For Strong senior-level backend engineering experience in production systems. Strong Python skills and the ability to design clean, maintainable backend code. Good distributed systems judgment: concurrency, failure handling, data consistency, async work, and service boundaries. Hands-on cloud experience in AWS, Azure, or a similar environment. Comfort with SQL and NoSQL systems, schema design, and performance tuning. Ability to go from problem statement to design to production rollout with real ownership. Clear written and verbal communication. You can explain systems, trade-offs, and incidents without hiding behind jargon. AI-native working style. You already use AI tools in your daily engineering workflow and want to keep pushing that further. Strong Plus Experience with LLM-backed systems, search, retrieval, AI infrastructure, or data-heavy pipelines. Working knowledge of TypeScript or the ability to contribute across the stack when needed. Experience shaping technical direction for other engineers, even without formal management responsibility. How We Evaluate Fit We care more about ownership, systems judgment, and learning velocity than a perfect keyword match to our stack. If you are the kind of engineer who can take a messy problem and turn it into a strong production system, we want to talk. What Shelf Offers: B2B contract. Company Stock Options. Hardware: MacBook Pro. Modern technical stack . Develop open-source software . GitHub Copilot subscription. Access to Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, TypingMind, and MCP Servers. Why Shelf: Our Leadership Team has deep knowledge management and AI domain expertise and enterprise SaaS background to execute this plan We love our customers and our customers love us. Ask a Shelf customer why, and they’ll tell you it’s because of our innovative capabilities, rock-solid reliability, they truly enjoy working with our people, but most of all – it’s the improvements they see in their business KPIs. We have raised over $60 million in funding and our investors include Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Connecticut Innovations, and others We have high velocity growth powered by the most innovative product in our category, 3X growth for 3 years in a row We now have over 100 employees in multiple U.S. states and European countries, and we have ambitious hiring goals over the next few months
Technology
N-iX
Senior Python Engineer (with AI experience)
Senior
Remote
Krakow, Poland
5,000 - 6,600 USD
🏢 Summary: Senior Python Backend Engineer role focused on building and scaling AI-driven services and APIs for clinical trial risk detection, with strong emphasis on AI-assisted development and LLM integration. The position involves designing robust backend systems, integrating OpenAI-based capabilities, and solving performance and architectural challenges in a data-intensive SaaS environment. You will work with modern Python frameworks and cloud-native technologies in an Agile setup. 🗂️ Requirements: 6+ years of professional software development experience, Strong production-level Python experience, Experience building and consuming REST APIs, Daily professional use of AI coding assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot), Familiarity with Specification-Driven Development (SDD), Working knowledge of BMAD methodology for AI/ML features, Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases, Understanding of Agile/SCRUM methodology, Knowledge of software design and architectural patterns (SOLID, Clean Architecture), Fluent English for technical collaboration 📃 Skills: Python, FastAPI, Flask, Pyramid, REST, OpenAI, GitHub, Copilot, SDD, BMAD, SQL, MySQL, MongoDB, CosmosDB, Kubernetes, Docker, Git, Celery, Temporal, Azure, CI/CD, SOLID, Agile, SCRUM 🏢 Description: About the client: Our client is a cutting-edge, technology focused SaaS company that provides a better way of detecting and managing risks that may impact the outcome of clinical trials. Their solutions are driven by a unique set of algorithms that interrogate clinical and operational data in real-time centrally to conveniently illuminate outliers and anomalies in data. Role description You will join a 100+ strong Engineering team driving the future of data-driven statistics, machine learning, and AI software solutions. As part of a talented group of Python developers within a dynamic, fast-scaling company, you will tackle meaningful engineering challenges — and now, you will be at the forefront of integrating AI-assisted development practices into the team's everyday workflow. Our backend engineers primarily work with Python and FastAPI, broader tech stack includes: Kubernetes, Docker, Flask, Pyramid, Git, MySQL, Mongo, Azure Cosmos Db, Celery, Temporal Responsibilities: • Design, build and maintain robust, scalable Python services and APIs • Integrate and extend AI/LLM capabilities using the OpenAI API and related tooling • Accelerate development velocity through effective use of GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted code review • Apply SDD practices to ensure features are specification-aligned and well-documented from day one • Refactor existing codebases and perform thorough peer code reviews • Solve complex performance bottlenecks and architectural challenges at scale • Collaborate with Product and Design to translate end-user needs into pragmatic technical solutions • Champion engineering best practices, clean code principles and knowledge sharing within the team Requirements: • 6+ years of professional software development experience • Strong Python expertise — production-grade services, libraries and tooling • Proven experience building and consuming REST-based web services • Daily use of GitHub Copilot or equivalent AI coding assistants in a professional context • Familiarity with SDD (Specification-Driven Development) workflows • Working knowledge of BMAD delivery methodology for AI/ML features • Solid understanding of SQL and/or NoSQL databases • Clear understanding of Agile/SCRUM methodology • Strong grasp of software design and architectural patterns (SOLID, Clean Architecture, etc.) • Confident written and spoken English for daily collaboration in an international team Nice to have: • Containerisation — Docker, Kubernetes or equivalent orchestration platforms • Background in clinical data, life sciences or regulated software environments • Contributions to open-source AI/ML projects • Experience working with Azure, understanding of CI/CD
Technology
Shelf
Senior Backend Python Engineer
Senior
Hybrid
Warsaw, MZ, Poland
7,000 - 9,200 USD
🏢 Summary: Senior Backend Engineer role focused on designing, shipping, and owning production-grade backend systems for enterprise AI software. The position requires turning ambiguous problems into scalable architectures and maintaining reliability, performance, and observability in production. It is a product engineering role with full ownership from system design to rollout. 🗂️ Requirements: Senior-level backend engineering experience in production systems, Strong Python proficiency, Experience designing distributed systems, Knowledge of concurrency and async processing, Experience with failure handling and data consistency, Hands-on cloud experience (AWS or Azure), Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, Ability to design data models and system boundaries, Experience building and maintaining APIs and backend services, Production experience with observability and performance tuning, Ability to write technical specifications and architecture documentation, Experience using AI tools in engineering workflows 📃 Skills: Python, AWS, Azure, SQL, NoSQL, APIs, DistributedSystems, Concurrency, Async, Observability, LLM, TypeScript 🏢 Description: About Shelf Shelf builds software that helps enterprises make AI work in the real world. We care about the hard part: reliable systems, clear operational logic, and production-grade engineering that makes AI useful instead of brittle. Job Description: This role is for a senior backend engineer who can own important systems, not just implement tickets. You will take ambiguous problems, design the right backend approach, ship it, and keep it healthy in production. We want someone who is strong technically, communicates clearly, and has the judgment to make systems simpler, safer, and easier to evolve over time. This is a product engineering role with real ownership from system design through production. Location – Warsaw, work from the office What You Will Own Design and ship backend services, APIs, data flows, and background processing for production systems. Turn vague requirements into concrete technical plans, trade-offs, and execution. Own services after launch: reliability, observability, performance, and incident follow-through. Make sound decisions around system boundaries, data models, interfaces, and scaling paths. Write clear technical specs, architecture notes, and diagrams when they help the team move faster. Work closely with product, frontend, and platform engineers to deliver end-to-end outcomes. Improve engineering leverage with AI tooling, automation, and internal workflows rather than using AI as a gimmick. Raise the quality bar through code review, design review, and pragmatic technical leadership. What Strong Performance Looks Like You reliably move important backend work forward without waiting to be tightly managed. Your systems are easier to operate and easier to change because of your design decisions. You communicate trade-offs clearly and make the team around you more effective. You use AI tools well: to accelerate analysis, implementation, debugging, writing, and repetitive work, while keeping a high verification bar. What We Are Looking For Strong senior-level backend engineering experience in production systems. Strong Python skills and the ability to design clean, maintainable backend code. Good distributed systems judgment: concurrency, failure handling, data consistency, async work, and service boundaries. Hands-on cloud experience in AWS, Azure, or a similar environment. Comfort with SQL and NoSQL systems, schema design, and performance tuning. Ability to go from problem statement to design to production rollout with real ownership. Clear written and verbal communication. You can explain systems, trade-offs, and incidents without hiding behind jargon. AI-native working style. You already use AI tools in your daily engineering workflow and want to keep pushing that further. Strong Plus Experience with LLM-backed systems, search, retrieval, AI infrastructure, or data-heavy pipelines. Working knowledge of TypeScript or the ability to contribute across the stack when needed. Experience shaping technical direction for other engineers, even without formal management responsibility. How We Evaluate Fit We care more about ownership, systems judgment, and learning velocity than a perfect keyword match to our stack. If you are the kind of engineer who can take a messy problem and turn it into a strong production system, we want to talk. What Shelf Offers: B2B contract. Company Stock Options. Hardware: MacBook Pro. Modern technical stack . Develop open-source software . GitHub Copilot subscription. Access to Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, TypingMind, and MCP Servers. Why Shelf: Our Leadership Team has deep knowledge management and AI domain expertise and enterprise SaaS background to execute this plan We love our customers and our customers love us. Ask a Shelf customer why, and they’ll tell you it’s because of our innovative capabilities, rock-solid reliability, they truly enjoy working with our people, but most of all – it’s the improvements they see in their business KPIs. We have raised over $60 million in funding and our investors include Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Connecticut Innovations, and others We have high velocity growth powered by the most innovative product in our category, 3X growth for 3 years in a row We now have over 100 employees in multiple U.S. states and European countries, and we have ambitious hiring goals over the next few months