# Backend Engineer at Lightning AI

- Company: Lightning AI
- What the company does: From the PyTorch Lightning creators. Own your AI, don. Backed by Index.
- Company website: https://lightning.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom; New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States; Seattle,...
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2023-09-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lightningai/jobs/5740846003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lightning-ai-backend-engineer/

## About the role

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to help develop and scale the Lightning AI platform, spanning APIs, infrastructure, billing, security, and integrations. In this role, you’ll take ownership of key features and drive them end-to-end, working closely with engineering, product, and design to ship high-quality, iterative improvements. This is an opportunity to build systems that support real-world machine learning workloads at scale.

## What they're looking for

- Extensive experience writing efficient, maintainable code in Go. Familiarity with best practices in testing, readability, and optimization is essential
- Broad knowledge of backend and frontend systems, with experience building and scaling APIs, CLI tools, billing systems, and security protocols. Exposure to frontend frameworks is a plus
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure and designing systems that are reliable, performant, and scalable. Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) is a strong advantage
- Proven ability to take ownership of key features and drive end-to-end development
- Commitment to software quality, test automation, and continuous delivery. Experience proactively managing technical debt and speeding up time to production
- Hands-on experience as a backend or product engineer in a SaaS technology company

Tags: Product Engineering