Senior Backend Engineer
- Salary
- $205,000 - $270,000
- Level
- Senior
- Work type
- Remote · US only
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 28 October 2026.
About the role
Location: Remote (US)
Pay: $205,000–$270,000 + equity
A late-stage, venture-backed enterprise AI company needs a senior backend engineer for the services behind its AI agents. These agents talk to people in real time, so latency and reliability are the product.
What you'll do
- Design and scale the backend for agent products
- Work with ML and frontend engineers to bring agents into production
- Cut latency and raise reliability on high-volume services
- Handle large data volumes efficiently and safely
- Share on-call for the services you own
What you bring
- 5+ years of backend engineering
- gRPC and REST API design
- SQL and NoSQL schema and query tuning
- Kubernetes, Docker and microservices on AWS, GCP or Azure
- Experience building AI or virtual agent systems
- BS in Computer Science
Nice to have: queues and distributed orchestration; Python with FastAPI, Flask or Django
Mural Group's standard text
Mural Group is recruiting for this role on behalf of a client. Apply here and a Mural recruiter will be in touch.
What this role asks for
Standard for backend roles
AWS · Kubernetes · Python
Common in backend postings at any company.
86% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Mural Group's standard text, folded away below.
Compared with Mural Group's other open jobs.
The team: Engineering
This role is one of 13 open in Engineering. 13 were posted in the last 30 days.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (8 of 13), LLM (3 of 13), Machine Learning (3 of 13), PostgreSQL (3 of 13), TypeScript (3 of 13), AWS (2 of 13), CI/CD (2 of 13)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Software Engineer, Fintech Products posted Oct 28
- Staff Software Engineer, Medical Imaging posted Oct 28
- Staff Software Engineer, Robotics posted Oct 28
- Founding Product Designer posted Oct 28
- Staff Storage Engineer posted Oct 28
- Staff Network Engineer posted Oct 28
- Senior Full Stack Engineer posted Oct 28
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 28
- Forward Deployed Product Manager posted Oct 28
- Senior Product Engineer posted Oct 28
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer posted Oct 28
- Senior Applied AI Engineer posted Oct 28
From the team and dates on Mural Group's own job board.
Salary context
56 other open postings titled Senior Backend Engineer state a salary: median USD 180,000 to USD 222,500 a year.
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