Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - US
Palo Alto, CA
- LandingLens™, our flagship enterprise solution for labeling, training and building deep learning vision models.- VisionAgent™, our forward-looking AI Pilot for developers building end-to-end VisualAI solutions.
Founded by Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera, founding lead of Google Brain, and former chief scientist at Baidu, LandingAI is uniquely positioned to lead the development of AI from a technology that benefits a few to a technology that benefits all.
What you will do:
- Owning and defining architecture for AI-powered applications and services, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability across teams.
- Designing, developing, and deploying backend infrastructure and AI services with a focus on high availability, performance, and reliability.
- Leading cross-functional initiatives, collaborating with Machine Learning Engineers, Product Managers, and other teams to align technical solutions with business needs.
- Driving innovation by making strategic technical decisions, setting best practices, and mentoring engineers to elevate the team’s technical bar.
- Improving developer experience by building internal tooling, streamlining workflows, and optimizing deployment pipelines.
- Ensuring seamless data flow, building high-throughput, secure, and scalable data pipelines to support AI model training and deployment.
- Championing best practices in software engineering, ensuring high-quality code, rigorous testing, and well-documented design decisions.
What you will bring: Required Skills:
- 5+ years of experience in software development, with a strong backend or full-stack engineering background.
- Expertise in backend development, with proficiency in Python or Node.js and modern web frameworks like FastAPI, Express.js, Next.js
- Strong software architecture skills, with experience designing and scaling distributed systems and cloud-based applications.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
- Database expertise, including SQL, NoSQL, and data streaming solutions.
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Proficiency in software engineering best practices, including code reviews, unit testing, CI/CD pipelines, and system design.
- Ability to mentor engineers, foster collaboration, and drive alignment across technical teams.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical challenges into business impact.
- Flexible Work Hours willing to work flexible hours to coordinate with a globally distributed team.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with Computer Vision, LLMs, or Large Multimodal Models (LMMs).
- Background in developer-facing products and building intuitive APIs.
Pay & Benefits:
- Stock Awards – We want you to share in our success with equity grants.
- Comprehensive Healthcare – Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
- *Wellness Stipend – Support for your health and well-being, whether it’s fitness programs or self-care.
- *Lifelong Learning – An education stipend to help you grow and keep learning.
- Generous PTO – We know life happens outside of work, and we want you to enjoy it.
- *Global Team & Fun Events – Work with amazing colleagues across North America, Latin America, and Asia, and connect through virtual and in-person events.
- *Benefits may vary based on your country of employment.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
Tags: APIs Architecture AWS Azure CI/CD Computer Vision Data pipelines Deep Learning Distributed Systems Docker Engineering FastAPI GCP Kubernetes LLMs Machine Learning Model training Node.js NoSQL Pipelines Python Security SQL Streaming Testing
Perks/benefits: Career development Equity / stock options Flex hours Flex vacation Health care Team events Wellness
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