Software Engineer, Backend
Mistral AI2 months ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend features and APIs.
- Build reliable, high-performance distributed systems supporting millions of users and developers.
- Contribute to systems for inference, billing, AI tooling, observability, and developer experience.
- Design secure, efficient, and scalable system architectures.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, product, platform, and AI/ML teams on model-as-a-service solutions.
- Write maintainable, documented code and participate in code reviews and technical standards.
- Ship end-to-end features and integrate relevant backend, AI, LLM, and observability technologies into production.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proficiency in Python or another backend language such as Golang, Kotlin, or C#.
- Strong understanding of APIs, databases, caching, messaging systems, and distributed architectures.
- Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, ownership, communication, and collaboration abilities.
- Preferred experience with full-stack development and API or developer ecosystems.
- Preferred experience deploying software to cloud and on-premises environments.
- Preferred experience managing infrastructure with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.
- Preferred experience with AI/ML engineering and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.
- Preferred UX and product-centric mindset.
Benefits
- Benefits may include healthcare coverage, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, and meal and transportation allowances.
- Benefits vary by country and location.
About Mistral AI
Mistral AI builds foundation language models and full‑stack AI solutions for enterprises, offering APIs, on‑prem deployment, developer tools, and applications. The privately held company, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Paris, partners with organizations in finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector to co‑create customized systems. It releases open‑source models alongside commercial offerings and makes its models available through major cloud marketplaces.