Senior Backend Engineer, Core Platform – Scale AI Systems
Summary
Senior Software Engineer designing, building, and scaling the core backend systems behind Lightning AI's Studio platform — APIs and services for authentication, resource management, and multi-tenancy — while collaborating with product, infra, and AI teams, mentoring engineers, and shaping architecture in a fast-paced New York startup.
Lightning AI in New York/USA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and scale core backend systems powering our Studio platform. You will create APIs and services for authentication, resource management and multi-tenancy.
You will collaborate with product, infra and AI engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, and developer experience. You will mentor engineers, influence architecture decisions, and help raise engineering standards in a fast-paced startup