Remote Remote (Country) Employment $184,500 - $217,100/year

Acorns is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer, AI Team

About the Role

The role involves building and maintaining scalable backend services that support AI-driven financial applications, ensuring reliability, performance, and integration across systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement backend services for AI-powered features
  • Develop APIs that enable seamless communication between systems
  • Collaborate with data science teams to productionize machine learning models
  • Optimize system performance and ensure high availability
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production issues efficiently
  • Participate in system architecture discussions and planning
  • Ensure data consistency and integrity across services
  • Support the deployment and monitoring of backend systems
  • Contribute to database design and query optimization
  • Work with distributed systems to handle large-scale data processing
  • Integrate third-party services and external data sources
  • Maintain security and compliance standards in backend design
  • Improve observability through logging and monitoring tools
  • Lead code reviews and mentor junior engineering team members
  • Drive improvements in development workflows and tooling
  • Collaborate with product managers to define technical requirements
  • Translate business needs into scalable technical solutions
  • Evaluate new technologies for potential integration
  • Ensure backward compatibility during system upgrades
  • Support incident response and on-call rotations
  • Document system designs and technical decisions
  • Promote best practices in software engineering
  • Contribute to long-term technical strategy for AI infrastructure
  • Work in an agile development environment with iterative delivery

Compensation

Competitive salary and equity package

Work Arrangement

Hybrid work model with flexibility for remote work

Team

Part of a dedicated AI engineering team focused on intelligent financial solutions

Why This Role Matters

This position plays a critical role in shaping the backend infrastructure that powers AI-driven financial tools, directly impacting how users interact with intelligent features and improving financial outcomes through technology.

What We Look For

We seek engineers who combine technical depth with a collaborative mindset, capable of solving complex problems while contributing to a positive team culture grounded in curiosity and continuous improvement.

Visa sponsorship available for qualified candidates

About company
Acorns
Acorns is a financial wellness app that helps everyday people and families save and invest money for the long term. It offers multiple life stage products serving the needs of kids, teens, adults, and parents.
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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category backend
Posted a year ago