# Backend Engineer

At Dart, we’re building an AI-native product suite with a world-class user experience-and powerful infrastructure behind the scenes. Our backend is deeply mission-critical, and we’ve invested in a modern stack (Python, Django, Postgres, Redis, REST, AWS) to deliver speed, reliability, and flexibility at scale. We’re looking for backend engineers who thrive on product complexity, care about performance and correctness, and are excited to work with cutting-edge AI both in what we build and how we build it. What You’ll Do Build and scale LLM-powered systems that support agents, AI-assisted planning, chat with tasks/docs, and more Use LLMs and other AI tools in your development workflow to ship faster and with higher quality Design and maintain robust APIs and backend services using Python + Django Optimize data models and queries across a PostgreSQL + Redis foundation Work flexibly and autonomously across a wide range of product and technical challenges Improve existing systems and architect new ones as Dart’s capabilities grow Support and strengthen mission-critical operations as part of a high-ownership team Collaborate closely with frontend, design, and product teams to shape how f

- **Id**: 1241703
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/dart-backend-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T16:50:41Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T03:29:21Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1561
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Machine Learning, Project & Work Management Software

## Company

- **Id**: 3060980
- **Name**: Dart
- **Domain**: dartai.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/dartai>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 40000
- **Max**: 100000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 100000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **Django** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T16:50:41Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 10
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.293
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 7
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 100000
- **Is top pay**: no

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