Backend Engineer (Remote)
Content + Source + Freshness • 16 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value due to the innovative company focus on AI and machine learning, with competitive market position.
- Work on advanced AI and machine learning projects
- Flexible remote working environment
- Strong reputation in the growing AI industry
- Requires senior-level expertise in backend development
Pros
- Strong industry presence in AI and transformative technology
- Opportunities to work on impactful AI projects
- Remote work flexibility and emphasis on team dynamics
Cons
- The specified location could limit candidate outreach
- May require deep domain expertise in AI for leading roles
- Experience level expectation may not attract entry-level applicants
Who it's for
Senior / Lead • Remote
Good fit
- Senior engineers in backend development with AI expertise
- Professionals driven by technology innovation
- Candidates who thrive in flexible remote settings
Not recommended for
- Entry-level candidates
- Individuals seeking traditional software roles
- People who prefer rigid work environments
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
About the Company:
Clarifai is a leading, full-lifecycle deep learning AI platform for computer vision, natural language processing, and audio recognition. We help organizations transform unstructured images, video, text, and audio data into structured data at a significantly faster and more accurate rate than humans would be able to do on their own. Founded in 2013 by Matt Zeiler, Ph.D. Clarifai has been a market leader in AI since winning the top five places in image classification at the 2013 ImageNet Challenge. Clarifai continues to grow with employees remotely based throughout the United States and in Tallinn, Estonia.
We have raised $100M in funding to date, with $60M coming from our most recent Series C, and are backed by industry leaders like Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, New Enterprise Associates, LDV Capital, Corazon Capital, Google Ventures, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Osage.
Clarifai is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing, hiring, and retaining a diverse workforce.
The Opportunity:
As a Senior Engineer, you build the systems and services behind the Clarifai magic. You will focus on the development of the model workflow engine and of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
Impact:
You build the systems and services that will power some of Clarifai’s newest offerings. They will enable customers to perform automated tasks and synthesise internal information using LLMs and other models.
Requirements:
- Minimum of 6 years of backend software development experience required.
- Proficiency in one or more object-oriented programming languages and relational database management systems.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously is highly valued at Clarifai.
- Thrives in a fast-paced work environment.
- Experience working on distributed teams is preferred, with strong communication skills and transparency being key.
- Enjoys mentoring junior engineers and interns.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies is a plus.
Great to Have:
- Experience with GO or Python
- ML related experience
- Experience with Kubernetes
