Senior Backend Engineer (Integrations & Platform)

The posting, as FutureFit AI wrote it

Come join our Engineering team!

High velocity, high intensity, high trust, high bar, high impact, and a will to win.

If that resonates deeply with you, this could be your next career move. We’re seeking someone who leads with humility, pursues audacious goals, and is motivated by meaningful impact on people and the world.

At FutureFit AI, our core mission is to help more people get to better jobs faster and cheaper, with a specific focus on those facing barriers to opportunity. Our work helps resolve the growing issue of economic inequality, ensuring that no one is left behind in the future of work. Our AI-powered platform brings efficiency and insight to workforce development, replacing outdated systems and unlocking human potential at scale.

Ready to make an impact? Apply today.

Important note: Data shows that men typically apply when meeting 3/10 requirements, while women often wait until it’s 10/10. We encourage you to apply if you see a strong (not necessarily perfect) fit.

Our Company

• Team: 30 to 50 people across the US and Canada, with main hubs in New York and Toronto
• Funding: Built from 0 to 1 with no external capital (a rare feat for tech startups), then raised one round of funding led by JP Morgan, which fueled significant growth

The Opportunity

We’re seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Integrations & Platform) to build the backbone our platform runs on. You’ll design scalable backend systems that power complex data integrations with government and enterprise partners, remove manual operational work, and help the team move faster with less friction.

This is a build role and an operate role: when a sync fails or a record looks wrong, you can trace it back to the cause and fix it.

Your Role

Our integration footprint has grown quickly, and the most demanding piece is a bidirectional data sync with an external partner that requires sophisticated error handling, async workflows, and operational automation. You’ll start there, then turn what you build into the patterns and infrastructure we use for integration reliability across the platform.

This is hands-on, high-impact work where you’ll see results quickly: fewer production issues, faster support resolution, and systems that scale with confidence.

What You’ll Own

• Complex data integrations: Design, build, and maintain deep, bidirectional data integrations with government and enterprise partners, including partners with limited documentation.
• Asynchronous workflows: Build reliable async processing using queues, retries, idempotency, and eventual consistency patterns, handling duplicates, missing dependencies, and validation failures defensively.
• Operational automation: Eliminate categories of manual support work through backend services, Lambda functions, and internal tools that let non-technical teammates diagnose and resolve issues themselves.
• Observability: Implement structured logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting so issues surface befo

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omers: Workforce development agencies and intermediaries, government agencies, employers

• Industry: SaaS/AI technology
• Funding: Bootstrapped 0-1, then raised funding led by JP Morgan
• Structure: Growth, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Data, People & Culture, Finance & Operations

OUR CORE PRINCIPLES

• Be Curious
• Drive to Outcomes
• Raise the Bar
• Speed Matters
• Own It
• We Over Me

USE OF AI IN HIRING

At FutureFit, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to make our hiring process more efficient, consistent, and equitable—never to replace human judgment. We use AI in the following ways:

• Screening support: AI may help us compare applications against the skills and experience required for a specific role. These skills are defined by the hiring team for each position. A human reviews each application, with the AI assessment as just one input.
• Interview support: In some interviews, we may use an AI notetaker to summarize the discussion so interviewers can focus on being present in the conversation.
• Insights, not decisions: AI provides data points to support our team’s evaluation but does not make or recommend final hiring decisions. Every hiring decision is made by people.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.

© FutureFit AI All rights reserved, we are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We encourage people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply.