Senior Backend Engineer

Scale Army
Cairo, Buenos Aires, Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Abuja
Workplace: RemoteContractUSD 3,000 - 3,500 monthlyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Technical decision-making","Autonomous ownership","Production troubleshooting","Documentation","Asynchronous collaboration"]

Design, build, and maintain backend services that power AI-driven healthcare workflows. You’ll create scalable REST APIs, MCP servers/connectors, and secure integrations between internal/external systems and language models. Own asynchronous processing with queues and background jobs, collaborate on distributed systems architecture, and ensure production reliability through monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident-response practices. This fully remote, hands-on role emphasizes shipping new backend capabilities with minimal oversight.

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Scale Army
Scale Army
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Senior Backend Engineer

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Job Summary

Design, build, and maintain backend services that power AI-driven healthcare workflows. You’ll create scalable REST APIs, MCP servers/connectors, and secure integrations between internal/external systems and language models. Own asynchronous processing with queues and background jobs, collaborate on distributed systems architecture, and ensure production reliability through monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident-response practices. This fully remote, hands-on role emphasizes shipping new backend capabilities with minimal oversight.
Location: Cairo, Buenos Aires, Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Abuja
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Contract
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and maintain backend services supporting AI-powered products and workflows.
  • •Develop integrations and connectors so AI agents can interact with internal and external systems via MCP tools/servers.
  • •Create scalable REST APIs and reliable backend implementations for automated, language-model-driven workflows.
  • •Build and maintain asynchronous processing workflows using background jobs and queue systems.
  • •Support production reliability for AI agent workflows through troubleshooting, monitoring, logging, observability, and incident-response practices.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 3,000 - 3,500 monthly

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years of professional backend engineering experience in production environments.
  • •Strong experience designing, building, and maintaining backend services and REST APIs.
  • •Experience with microservices architectures, distributed systems, and relational/non-relational databases.
  • •Experience building asynchronous processing workflows using background jobs and queue systems (e.g., Redis Queue, SQS).
  • •Strong interest or experience integrating LLMs/AI models into production systems, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) and AI-agent integration patterns.
Experience:6+ yearsHealthcareAI/LLMDistributed systemsMicroservicesBackground jobsStartup environment
Skills:Technical decision-makingAutonomous ownershipProduction troubleshootingDocumentationAsynchronous collaboration
Tech Stack:PHPREST APIsMicroservicesDistributed systemsRelational databasesNon-relational databasesRedis QueueAmazon SQSModel Context Protocol (MCP)LLMsAI agentsAWSGCPCloudflareCI/CDDockerKubernetesTerraformPulumiLinear

Company Brief

Scale Army
Scale Army is a growth marketing agency that helps startups and SMBs scale through performance marketing, paid media, and data-driven customer acquisition strategies tailored to drive revenue and growth.
Industry: Professional Services
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Funding: Bootstrapped
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