GigaML
Staff Backend Engineer
$200K–$400K
New York · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Feb 14, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience.
About the job
Leads the technical direction and hands-on development of Giga’s backend systems and AI agent infrastructure, delivering complex projects and improving engineering quality across teams.
What you'll do
- Design backend and agent-infrastructure architecture, balancing speed, reliability, and complexity.
- Own high-stakes technical projects and identify system gaps and strategic improvements.
- Set engineering standards through hands-on work and mentor engineers through collaboration.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with a track record of leading complex projects.
- Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear technical approaches with limited guidance.
- Strong coding and system-design judgment, including understanding how systems behave at scale.
- Willingness to remain hands-on and ship code.
Pay
$200K – $400K USD total pay
Tools
Python, Django, FastAPI, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres
AI focus
Builds and evolves backend infrastructure for real-time AI agents.
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