Back-end Engineer
About the role
Backend Engineer on the Interview Team at Emi Labs, focused on designing and building the orchestration of interview scheduling and execution, with an emphasis on AI-powered automation and improving candidate experience.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable backend solutions, ensuring technical feasibility and long-term maintainability.
- Research, evaluate, and apply AI tools and frameworks to automate workflows, repetitive tasks, and operational processes within the team.
- Develop and maintain AI-powered agents to support areas such as testing, monitoring, data validation, and internal tooling.
- Solve production issues with a strong focus on candidate experience and system reliability.
- Ship code to production frequently (on a weekly basis).
- Monitor service performance and proactively take action when issues or optimization opportunities arise.
Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience as a backend developer, software engineer, or in a related role.
- Strong backend development experience (Node.js preferred).
- Experience designing, discussing, and implementing technical solutions.
- Hands-on experience researching, evaluating, and using AI tools (e.g. LLM-based tools, AI agents, automation frameworks) in a professional or advanced personal context.
- Interest and ability to build AI-driven automation for workflows, testing, and operational tasks.
- Proactive, passionate, and resilient mindset, comfortable working in a fast-growing and imperfect environment.
- Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders, both technical and non-technical.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Skills
Benefits
- Competitive salary: Salaries paid in USD
- Stock Options: Stock Options Package as part of your compensation package
- Flexible remote-first work culture. We work towards goals*
- Vacations: 3-weeks of vacation.
- Paternity leave: 4 weeks of paid paternity leave
- Holiday season: Week off between Christmas and New Years' eve
- Physical Wellness program: Gympass partnership for wellbeing coverage
- English Classes: in-company teachers
- Internal library: access to free books digital and physical
About Emi Labs
Helping great teams hire better frontline workers, faster.
At Emi Labs (YC '19) we are on a mission to increase frontline workers' access to professional opportunities by building the infrastructure for Frontline Workers (check our manifesto here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/our-manifesto-building-infrastructure-frontline-workers-emi-labs/). As our first step, we are transforming the high-volume recruiting process of Frontline Workers to make it as simple, human, and fair as possible for both Candidates and Recruiters. Our product is a SaaS recruitment platform powered by AI that helps companies engage with candidates via text to drive faster and more efficient hiring processes. We are growing fast, well funded, and obsessed with making our mission a reality. Some of their customers include Walmart, Burger King, Starbucks, 7-Eleven, Danone, Imperfect Foods, and Heineken.
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