Autopilot
Backend Engineer, Infrastructure
New York, New York, US · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Experience
- 2-5 years of professional backend engineering experience; ideally in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Visa sponsorship
- Unable to sponsor or transfer employment visas; candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future visa sponsorship.
About the job
Build and operate the cloud infrastructure and backend systems that power Autopilot’s trading platform.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure and backend systems; strengthen distributed systems, database performance, and production reliability.
- Improve deployment pipelines, developer tooling, observability, and incident response and recovery.
- Work with backend engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to deliver secure, reliable, scalable solutions.
What they ask for
- Proficiency in TypeScript for backend development; other languages are also considered.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar cloud infrastructure.
- Expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and production reliability.
- Track record of building and scaling backend systems to support rapid growth.
Nice to have
- Experience with trading, investing, or fintech platforms; hyper-growth startups; or integrations with Robinhood, Stripe, Plaid, or similar platforms/apps.
- Experience with backend stacks such as node.js, typescript, graphql, nest.js, gcp, google pubsub, or postgres sql.
Tools
TypeScript, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Robinhood, Stripe, Plaid, node.js, graphql, nest.js
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