Summary
A senior backend engineering position focused on building distributed systems, scalable APIs, cloud infrastructure, and AI-enabled platforms. The role involves technical leadership, architecture ownership, mentoring, and improving engineering standards.
Highlights
High-impact senior engineering role with strong compensation, ownership of architecture decisions, opportunities to lead initiatives, and work on cloud-native and AI-enabled systems.
Description
This role is part of the Jobright Direct Hiring Network, where top companies like Cresta AI, Plaud, Mercor, OpenArt, and 1,500+ others hire top talent directly through our platform.
This is not a mass job posting.
Only select, high-signal candidates are invited and recommended directly to hiring teams
Hiring Company: ZENDA, LLC
One-liner: ZENDA is a SaaS collaboration platform focused on process intelligence and operational resilience.
Salary: $150K/yr - $240K/yr
Why Join Us:
Role Responsibilities
• Design and ship scalable APIs and backend services in Node.js (Nest.js) and Python (FastAPI)
• Architect and evolve a distributed, event-driven microservices ecosystem with Kafka at its core
• Contribute directly to product features — not just the plumbing
• Design and own our cloud infrastructure using Terraform on AWS
• Operate and scale Kubernetes environments with an emphasis on reliability, performance, and security
• Build monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing systems that make production debuggable and resilient
• Establish the standards the rest of the team builds on top of
• Build the infrastructure that makes AI real in production: pipelines, agent frameworks, data processing systems, and model integrations
• Partner with product and data teams to move fast without cutting corners on reliability or scale
• Own the internal platform — CI/CD pipelines, local dev environments, deployment workflows, and the tooling that lets engineers focus on building instead of fighting their setup
• Make the developer experience a competitive advantage
• Lead critical backend initiatives from design to delivery
• Drive architectural reviews
• Mentor engineers through hard problems
• Raise the bar on quality, pragmatism, and ownership across the team
Qualitications
Required
• 5+ years building and operating production-grade backend and distributed systems
• Deep hands-on experience with Node.js (TypeScript) and/or Python
• Strong grasp of microservices, event-driven architecture, and message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar)
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native systems
• Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
• Solid data modeling across relational and/or NoSQL systems
• Experience with AI or data pipelines, automations, or ML-enabled systems
• Comfort operating across the full stack — from infrastructure to backend to data
• Strong plus: familiarity with modern AI tooling — LLMs, embeddings, agent architectures.
This space is moving fast and we want people who are excited by that, not intimidated
• We’re looking for someone with a genuine ownership mindset — someone who identifies gaps and fills them, leads without being asked, and cares about outcomes more than job titles
• Clear communication and cross-functional collaboration matter here as much as technical depth
