Senior Backend & Full-Stack Engineer – AI Platform

About the role

Uthereal is building the AI infrastructure that lets knowledge owners turn expertise into queryable, learnable systems. As a Senior Backend & Full-Stack Engineer you will own the production systems that make expert AI work at scale.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and operate cloud‑native services and distributed processing workflows.
• Build data‑intensive backend systems and multi‑tenant data infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain the infrastructure required for large‑scale AI workloads on AWS.
• Translate product and research requirements into scalable, secure, observable, and cost‑aware architecture.
• Lead technical execution, shape architectural decisions and mentor the team.

Required profile

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in fast‑moving product or startup environments.
• Strong full‑stack background with deep expertise in backend and infrastructure.
• Hands‑on experience building and operating systems on AWS.
• Comfort working in ambiguity, high ownership and critical thinking.

Required skills

• AWS (including ECS)
• Containerization (Docker)
• Distributed systems engineering
• ETL pipeline orchestration
• Async job processing, concurrency control, failure recovery
• Database architecture, query performance, multi‑tenant data management, backup tooling
• Observability platform engineering, OpenTelemetry, SLO and alerting design
• Autoscaling, capacity planning, cost management