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Deel

Back-End Engineer, AI

Deel

Backend Engineer, AI at Deel shipping features leveraging AI tools for scalable solutions in a fast-growing SaaS environment.

Posted 5/4/2026full-timeRemote • 🇷🇴 RomaniaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Node.jsNoSQLPostgresPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Work closely with Product Managers, Frontend Engineers, Designers, and QA professionals to understand requirements, scope features, and create seamless experiences.
  • Use AI coding tools like Claude to accelerate feature development—generating code, handling boilerplate, and writing scaffolding. You review all AI-generated code critically before shipping.
  • Build and ship AI products, workflows, and agents
  • From discovery to deployment, provide your technical input throughout all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle, including architecture decisions, design feedback, and deployment strategy.
  • Collaborate to develop robust new features, APIs, databases, and infrastructure. Help find and fix bugs at Deel Speed while maintaining high-quality standards.
  • Ship features end-to-end with ownership: design, develop, test, deploy, monitor, and iterate.
  • Ensure top-tier products and services through quality engineering, rigorous testing, and attentive, customer-focused development.
  • Communicate constantly with cross-functional teams. Explain technical constraints to non-technical stakeholders. Translate requirements into solutions. Keep everyone aligned.
  • Unblock teams by answering questions clearly, debugging issues fast, and proposing solutions to ambiguous problems.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • At least 3 years of experience as a Backend/Software Engineer. You've shipped real AI products, features, debugged production issues, and thought about scale.
  • Experience developing with NodeJS or Python. You write clean, maintainable code comfortably. You understand patterns, conventions, and best practices. Syntax is muscle memory.
  • You know SQL and NoSQL fundamentals. Particularly strong with PostgreSQL and ORM libraries (such as Sequelize, TypeORM, or similar). You can write queries, optimize performance, and design schemas with purpose.
  • Demonstrated experience shipping real products using Claude. You've used AI to accelerate development and shipped features that work in production. You can prompt effectively, review AI-generated code critically, and know when to use AI versus write code manually.
  • Excellent communication skills—written and verbal. You explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders clearly. You write clear documentation, code comments, and Slack updates. You ask good questions and proactively share context. Strong remote collaboration skills. You excel in async communication. You proactively communicate status, blockers, and decisions. You've successfully worked in distributed teams.
  • Adheres to business processes and systems to meet the company's quality requirements. You follow Deel's standards for code review, testing, deployment, and operational responsibility.
  • Takes personal accountability for service excellence. You own your work from design to production. When something breaks, you fix it. When something's slow, you optimize it.
  • Information security: Understands your role within the organization from an information security perspective and commits to protecting the organization's security and information assets. You follow best practices for secure coding, data handling, and compliance.
  • Ensures cost savings and efficiencies in the area of accountability. You think about resource utilization, infrastructure costs, and team velocity. You don't waste effort or resources.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
  • Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
  • The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access

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Hard Skills & Tools
NodeJSPythonSQLNoSQLPostgreSQLORM librariesAI coding toolsSoftware Development LifecycleAPI developmentDebugging
Soft Skills
Excellent communication skillsRemote collaborationProactive communicationProblem-solvingAccountabilityCustomer-focused developmentTeam alignmentDocumentation writingAsync communicationContext sharing