Senior Backend Engineer at Ayrshare - API & AI in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
This role positions you at the intersection of API platform engineering and AI tooling integration — two of the hottest skill areas in 2024–2025. Building and owning social media API infrastructure at scale (13+ network integrations, near-100% uptime) is strong portfolio material for any senior backend engineer.
Compensation transparency: saas.group explicitly states salaries are location-adjusted to local market medians and shared before the first interview — a genuine green flag for candidate trust. No figures are public, so benchmark against your local senior Node.js/backend engineer market rates (e.g., €60k–90k in Western Europe, lower in Eastern Europe).
Skills you'll develop:
- NodeJS, Firebase, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure at production scale
- AI/LLM platform integrations and "vibe coding" toolchain experience — an emerging, in-demand niche
- Direct CEO collaboration, translating product strategy to technical execution (rare at IC level)
- Cross-brand SaaS knowledge via the saas.group 350+ person network
Culture signals: Small senior team, minimal bureaucracy, and high autonomy suggest a lean startup feel within a larger portfolio company. This is ideal for engineers who want ownership without the chaos of a true early-stage startup — you have infrastructure stability with room to innovate.
One watch-out: As a small team reporting closely to the CEO, there may be limited traditional promotion paths. However, the exposure to a multi-brand SaaS portfolio and global engineering community offers lateral growth opportunities across 23 brands.
This role is part of Ayrshare, one of the growing brands at saas.group.
Ayrshare offers a unified social media API to post, schedule, analyze, comment, and message across 13+ networks — letting developers integrate social media features in minutes while removing the burden of maintaining multiple native integrations.
We're looking for an outstanding Backend Engineer who will own critical parts of our technical landscape and build new features for our platform. As a strong individual contributor, you'll code daily, guide architecture, and ensure our systems remain stable and scalable.
You'll work closely with our CEO and a small senior engineering team. Our platform is highly stable (near-100% uptime), developer-first, and headless API-driven, used by engineers worldwide.
Your immediate impact in the first 3–6 months will be:
- Launch our Instagram Ads integration as part of the core product.
- Integrate with AI development/coding platforms (e.g., vibe coding tools) to expand product capabilities.
- Drive ongoing improvements to the core platform, preserving our near-100% uptime and developer-first quality.
Your Responsibilities
- Code daily while leading by example, shipping features with production-quality standards.
- Develop scalable, fault-tolerant systems and APIs.
- Collaborate with business leaders on our roadmap.
- Make pragmatic, risk-aware decisions that balance innovation with uptime.
- Collaborate with the CEO to translate product strategy into execution.
- Dive into customer issues in partnership with our engineering team.
What You Bring to the Table
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with proven impact at senior levels.
- Strong expertise in software design & architecture, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on coding skills in NodeJS, React, Firebase, and APIs.
- Excitement about integrating with AI platforms and vibe coding tools.
- Deep understanding of software quality practices (testing, CI/CD, documentation).
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills in a remote-first, async environment.
- Pragmatic problem-solver: you balance speed with quality and know when to optimize.
What's in It for You
- Ultimate flexibility: We're 100% remote. Work from anywhere, anytime.
- Freedom and autonomy: A high-trust team with space to experiment and deliver impact.
- Minimum bureaucracy: We keep processes lean so you can focus on building.
- Small & friendly team: Supportive peers, knowledge-sharing, and humor included.
- A global SaaS community: Access to 350+ SaaS professionals across 21 brands, exchanging expertise and learning.
- Flexible time off: Recharge when you need to.
Ayrshare is part of saas.group and we have a shared goal of succeeding together.
We don't just simply offer you to "take a job with us" but rather to "join us on this journey" to build the world's largest platform of independent SaaS companies.
Sounds like something you're up for? Feel free to apply even if you don't check all these boxes. We believe in the power of diversity and fresh perspectives to spice up our team. Your application might just be the missing ingredient!
What is saas.group?
Think of us as the driving catalyst behind your favorite software success stories. saas.group, established in 2017, is on a mission to turbocharge promising B2B SaaS ventures, unlocking their full potential. As a Software-as-a-Service portfolio powerhouse, we specialize in acquiring small software treasures and polishing them into industry stars. With a dynamic, fully remote team of nearly 350+ colleagues spanning 50+ countries, we are truly global and are rewriting the playbook on SaaS innovation and collaboration. We grow 23 exciting brands under our umbrella. Feel free to explore our Candidate's Hub to get an insider's view, dive into our culture, and gain valuable insights into our teams and how we work.
Also, don't forget to follow saas.group on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date on our job openings, podcast episodes, and all things happening at our company.
saas.group is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
We believe in fair and transparent pay. Salary ranges at saas.group are location-adjusted, targeting local market medians for a remote-first environment, and will be shared with our potential future employees in writing before your first interview — so you have everything you need to evaluate the opportunity.
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