🚀 Backend Engineer – Airwork AI

About Airwork AI

Airwork is on a mission to become the world’s recruiting engine—connecting startups and growth-stage companies with top-tier talent from emerging markets. In 2025, we’re doubling down on our AI-powered matchmaking engine. We are building a category-defining SaaS platform and we’re looking for a backend engineer who can help us get there.

Join a high-ownership, high-context, fully remote team. Work directly with the founders and play a pivotal role in building and scaling the platform’s backend, LLM-driven services, and internal tools.

🔧 What You’ll Do

Own backend development for core products—design, build, and deploy secure, scalable services.
Integrate and optimize LLM-based features (e.g., resume matching, job generation, prompt pipelines).
Lead design and maintenance of RESTful and GraphQL APIs used by client and talent-facing applications.
Work on AI/ML service orchestration, from prompt engineering and embedding pipelines to async job queues.
Ensure high availability, fast response times, and secure systems through robust monitoring and dev practices.
Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines with containerized deployments (GitHub Actions, Docker).
Mentor junior engineers and take increasing ownership over technical architecture.

🧠 Your Core Stack

Must-Haves

4–5 years of backend development experience in a production-grade system.
Expertise in Node.js with Express.js or NestJS.
Strong skills in MongoDB and scalable data modeling.
Experience deploying on AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda).
Git, GitHub flow, and CI/CD experience.

Strong Pluses

TypeScript
Experience integrating OpenAI / Anthropic / Hugging Face APIs or similar LLMs.
Vector DBs (Pinecone, Weaviate, or Elasticsearch vector search)
GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tools
Unit, integration, and E2E test frameworks

Bonus Points

Docker and container orchestration
Serverless and microservice design patterns
Prior startup experience
Leadership or mentorship contributions

🌱 Growth Path

This isn’t just a job—it’s a long-term role with a fast track to Tech Lead. You’ll have influence over backend architecture, LLM service strategy, and future hiring decisions as the engineering team grows.

🌍 Why Join Airwork?

We’re profitable, global, and growing fast.
Fully remote, hybrid when needed
You’ll help shape the next-gen recruiting engine—AI-first, emerging-market centric, speed-optimized.
We value ownership, speed, courage, and experimentation. You’ll have full autonomy, async flexibility, and direct impact.

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