What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Back End Developer position at Just_?
Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer
Title: Backend / Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Remote (US/Dallas preferred)
Team: Founding Product & Engineering
Type: Full-time or long-term contract
About Us
We’re on a mission to transform how professional services are delivered. By combining AI, data science, and intuitive design, we’re helping industry experts work faster, smarter, and with greater impact. Just will win by reducing repetitive tasks, increasing precision and quality — ultimately raising productivity across the board.
The founding team includes proven executives from companies with successful exits. We move quickly, stay close to customers, and care a lot about building a real, durable business.
If you get energy from zero-to-one, rapid-paced environments and want meaningful ownership instead of just “another job,” this will feel like home.
The Role
We’re looking for a Senior Backend / Infrastructure Engineer to design and scale the data automation backbone that powers multiple products.
This isn’t a narrow backend role. You’ll own everything from clean APIs and async workflows to document ingestion pipelines, LLM orchestration, and reliability.
If you like turning messy real-world documents (PDFs, policies, comps, emails) into structured, reliable systems — this is your zone.
What You’ll Do
- Build and maintain Node.js TypeScript APIs for core product workflows.
- Design and deploy Python services for document ingestion, OCR, and LLM-powered analysis.
- Stand up data pipelines that process and normalize PDFs, spreadsheets, and API feeds.
- Manage infrastructure on AWS — ECS/Fargate, Lambda, RDS, S3, EventBridge.
- Set up job queues and background workers for long-running tasks.
- Implement search / vector search (OpenSearch, pgvector, etc.).
- Own CI/CD, observability, and reliability from day one (GitHub Actions, CloudWatch, etc.).
- Help define our engineering culture — code review standards, documentation, releases.
What We’re Looking For
- ~8–10 years of backend engineering experience (B2B SaaS or data-heavy products preferred).
- Proficient in Node.js and TypeScript.
- Comfortable writing production-grade Python (data pipelines, FastAPI, or ML integration).
- Solid experience with AWS, RDS, S3, and at least one IaC tool (Terraform/Pulumi).
- Strong SQL fundamentals; experience with Prisma, Drizzle, or SQLAlchemy is a plus.
- Familiar with queues, retries, and idempotent job design.
- Pragmatic: you know when to hack and when to design properly.
- Self-directed and comfortable in a rapid-paced, low-process environment.
Nice to Have
- Worked with OCR/LLM APIs (Textract, OpenAI, LangChain, etc.).
- Familiar with search/indexing systems (OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, pgvector).
Who You Are
- You think in systems, not just endpoints.
- You’ve shipped production systems where uptime and data accuracy matter.
- You enjoy building greenfield infrastructure without a 20-person DevOps team.
- You’re comfortable working directly with a business and product leaders.
- You value clean architecture but bias toward shipping and learning.
Why Join Now
- Greenfield codebase — define the architecture and tooling from the start.
- Work at the intersection of workflow automation AI in industries that are (finally) ready to modernize.
- High ownership, low bureaucracy — your work directly shapes the product and company.
- Small, sharp team that moves quickly and cares about outcomes.