What are the responsibilities and job description for the Backend Engineer (New York) position at Coders Connect?
This is an opportunity to match into the strongest Backend Engineering roles in NYC, companies building AI infrastructure, real-time systems, distributed backends, and core product APIs at a top-1% engineering bar.
We partner with startups that ship with Stripe-level rigor, Datadog-style reliability, and the pace of early-stage AI startups, but operate quietly, selectively, and with true ownership culture.
These roles are built for engineers who:
- Love building scalable backend systems
- Thrive in ambiguity and small teams
- Move fast but write maintainable, production-quality code
- Prefer ownership over process
- Enjoy hard technical problems (infra, pipelines, distributed systems)
- Want meaningful product impact, speed, and access to leadership
What You’ll Work On
Depending on the match, you’ll design & build:
- Scalable backend services
- High-throughput APIs, real-time data pipelines, distributed systems
- AI-adjacent backend infrastructure (model-serving, eval systems, data systems)
- Cloud-native architectures, microservices, containerized systems
- Internal platforms, developer tooling, observability, CI/CD
- Zero-to-one backend components for fast-growing NYC AI product teams
These are high-ownership, core engineering roles where your work becomes the backbone of the product.
Top Backend Engineer Qualifications (NYC teams want to see)
- Deep experience in Python, Go, or TypeScript/Node
- Ability to architect scalable services and distributed systems
- Experience with cloud infra (AWS/GCP), containers, CI/CD, monitoring
- Real ownership of production systems, not just features
- Strong communication alignment with fast-moving teams
- Ability to make architectural decisions independently
- Interest in AI infra, automation, and data-intensive systems
Bonus: LLM infra • data pipelines • realtime systems • devtools • security • SRE/infra depth
Why Apply Through CodersConnect
- Direct intros to NYC’s 20 top-tier backend & AI teams
- One conversation → multiple high-intent matches
- Founder & CTO access
- Clarity on hiring bar interview expectations
- Access to stealth opportunities not advertised publicly
- We work directly with these teams to scale engineering orgs