About the role
<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. We are designing, manufacturing, and operating an all-electric aircraft that can carry four passengers while producing minimal noise.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our sights are set high and our problems are hard, and we believe that diversity in the workplace is what makes us smarter, drives better insights, and will ultimately lift us all to success. We are dedicated to cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment that embraces our differences, and supports and celebrates all of our team members.</span></p></div><div class="p-rich_text_section"> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></span></h3> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will architect, develop, and scale the core services and infrastructure that power our cutting-edge AI products. You will bridge the gap between complex AI models and production-ready software, ensuring that our AI-driven insights are delivered reliably and at scale.</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Design and maintain scalable backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines to support applications powered by AI</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Leverage infrastructure-as-code tooling to build and manage backend environments</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Work cross-functionally with AI Research, Engineering, and Data Science teams to deploy and monitor scalable ML and optimization models</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Own the full development lifecycle—from design and development to deployment, monitoring, and maintenance</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Monitor system performance and reliability, and respond to production issues with effective debugging and root cause analysis</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code</span></li> <li style="font-siz