Very Good Ventures · 1 week ago
Senior Backend & Infrastructure Engineer-Full Time (US /LATAM)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$198K/yr - $220K/yr
8+ years expVery Good Ventures is a global consultancy that delivers clients elegant solutions using disruptive technologies. They are seeking a Senior Backend & Infrastructure Engineer to define and lead their backend and infrastructure practice, engage with clients, and design AI agents and infrastructure. The role requires deep engineering skills and the ability to deliver quality across multiple projects.
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Responsibilities
Act as the credible technical voice in pre-sales and client conversations. Help scope engagements, shape technical direction, and set expectations that we can deliver against
Partner with business development and leadership to estimate work, phase delivery, and protect both margin and delivery risk on fixed budgets and immovable dates
Define and evolve VGV’s backend, infrastructure, and agentic-infrastructure practice. Set the standards, patterns, and reusable approaches that the rest of the team builds on
Translate technical decisions for non-technical stakeholders. Anchor on business outcomes and risk, and command the room without drowning people in jargon
Deliver quality across simultaneous engagements with different requirements and constraints, and ramp fast on stacks you have not touched before
Design, build, deploy and scale production AI agents and the infrastructure that runs them. This is core to the role
Establish patterns for observability, cost control, safety, and reliability specific to agentic systems
Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform or OpenTofu
Build staged development environments and the CI/CD pipelines that make deployments rapid, reliable, and automated
Own observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting for performance, usage, and security
Set best practices for security, compliance, and cost optimization across cloud deployments
Build, deploy, and scale backend (micro)services with a focus on high-availability and resilience
Design and maintain backend APIs and integration services. Strong API design judgement across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC
Apply backend architectural patterns appropriately and explain the trade-offs behind your choices
Collaborate with front-end teams on integrations and performance
Qualification
Required
8+ years as a Backend or Full Stack Engineer, with a strong emphasis on DevOps, programmatic infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineering
Demonstrated experience building and scaling production AI-powered services or agents. Prototypes are not enough. We want to hear about systems that ran in production
Deep expertise in infrastructure-as-code and cloud resource management. We care about the principles you carry between the tools, not a specific tool or vendor
Strong experience with at least one major cloud platform, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
A track record of designing and scaling production backends, building custom services, and using cloud managed services well
Experience with containerization and orchestration such as Docker and Kubernetes
Familiarity with feature-flagging and staged rollouts
Experience implementing and running observability, logging, and alerting
Comfortable in fast-paced environments with evolving requirements
Comfortable operating in a client-facing consultancy environment. You have represented an engineering practice to external stakeholders before, whether a consultancy, an agency, or in a forward-deployed or solutions-architect capacity
You can establish a standard or practice at the organization level and drive its adoption, not just execute inside someone else's system
Confident, fluent written and spoken English. This role requires holding a room and translating for non-technical executives, so the bar is higher than conversational fluency
Preferred
Certification from one or more cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
Anthropic or other AI certification such as a Claude Certified Architect Foundations
Public technical credibility through talks, writing, teaching, or open-source leadership
Experience at a consultancy or agency
Benefits
Passion and enthusiasm for what we create.
REMOTE first and global company.
Subsidized health insurance, dental, and vision coverage
Generous parental leave.
Flexible PTO and company holidays.
End of year company shut down (December 25 - January 1), in addition to observing company holidays.
12 -16 weeks universal fully paid family leave.
Other benefits available based on location.
Passion and enthusiasm for what we create.
REMOTE first and global company.
Subsidized health coverage.
Generous parental leave.
Paid Time Off
End of year company shut down (December 25 - January 1), in addition to observing country holidays.
Other benefits available based on location.
Company
Very Good Ventures
Very Good Ventures is a strategic design and development consultancy, and the world-leader in multiplatform development with Flutter.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$6.4MKey Investors
Celesta Capital
2023-07-26Series A· $3.4M
2022-05-17Series A· $3M
Leadership Team
David DeRemer
Founder & CEO
Recent News
Celesta Capital
2026-07-02
2024-05-19
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