Senior Backend Engineer
Themuralgroup · Remote · US only
Posted on Themuralgroup's own careers page on 28 October 2026. You apply directly with the company.
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About the job
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 is recruiting for this role on behalf of a client. Apply here and a Mural recruiter will be in touch.
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