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# Senior Backend Engineer (Integrations & Platform) at FutureFit AI

- **Company:** FutureFit AI
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/futurefitai/74bc6985-476c-457f-a431-cbb475c4175b

## Job description

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 Our AI-powered platform brings efficiency and insight to workforce development, replacing outdated systems and unlocking human potential at scale.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 before support tickets do.
- Production reliability: Stay close enough to running systems to debug them, including code you did not write.
- Reusable patterns: Establish integration standards the rest of the team can build on.
- Partner collaboration: Work with external vendors on API changes and coordinated deployments.

## Your 30/60/90 Day Plan

At FutureFit AI, we value clarity of purpose and rapid momentum. Here’s what success looks like in your first 90 days: First 30 Days: Learn and Integrate

- Build relationships with the engineering, customer success, and support teams who interact with our integration systems daily
- Deep dive into our most complex integration: the bidirectional sync architecture between our platform and external partners (APIs, data models, async workflows, error patterns)
- Get hands-on with our debugging tools: MongoDB queries for async job tracking, CloudWatch Logs Insights for distributed tracing, SQL queries for data validation
- Ship your first small fixes or improvements: resolve straightforward integration bugs or improve observability in one workflow

Days 31 to 60: Own and Execute

- Take ownership of your first major automation initiative: eliminate a category of manual support work
- Build and deploy backend services and Lambda functions that reduce manual intervention in the integration pipeline
- Implement comprehensive observability (structured logging, metrics, and alerting) so issues surface before support tickets
- Work with the support team to validate that your automation eliminates manual work, and identify the next highest-impact opportunity
- Document runbooks and create internal tools that empower non-technical team members to diagnose and resolve common issues independently
- Collaborate with external partners on any API changes or coordinated deployments your automation needs
- Begin identifying patterns and infrastructure that can be reused across other integrations or platform systems

Days 61 to 90: Lead and Amplify

- Measure and communicate the impact of your automation: reduction in support tickets, decrease in manual intervention time, improvement in data consistency and error rates
- Participate in architectural discussions and planning for other platform initiatives, bringing your expertise in reliability patterns, async workflows, and operational excellence
- Mentor other engineers on the patterns and infrastructure you’ve built, establishing yourself as the go-to person for integration reliability
- Present a technical deep-dive to the broader engineering team on what you’ve learned and built

Required Experience

- 5 to 8+ years of senior-level, hands-on experience in backend, platform, or integration engineering, with a focus on building reliable systems for complex external integrations
- Strong experience with TypeScript and Node.js
- Proven experience building and maintaining complex data integrations at enterprise or government scale (deep data integration work, not only SSO, API configuration, or cloud deployments)
- Strong understanding of asynchronous workloads and processing
- Experience developing reliable, production-grade backend systems
- Strong debugging skills using logs, metrics, and tracing
- Proficiency with at least one SQL or NoSQL database in production
- Comfort working effectively in a fully remote environment

Bonus Points

- AWS experience (Lambda, EventBridge, SQS); Azure experience is transferable
- Frontend or full-stack development experience
- Experience with financial, banking, or similarly complex data integrations
- GraphQL API design, MongoDB or DynamoDB for async state management
- Experience with legacy enterprise or government systems
- Multi-tenant architecture experience

Our Tech Stack

- Languages: TypeScript, Node.js
- Architecture: Event-driven (EventBridge, SQS, Lambda)
- Data: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redshift
- Observability: CloudWatch Logs Insights
- Infrastructure: AWS, GitHub Actions for CI/CD

## Your Education

Your alma mater isn’t our focus. Your grit, hunger, and drive are. If you learn continuously, tackle challenges head-on, and know your strengths and gaps intimately, you’re our person.

## Benefits

- Work directly with the founding team
- Unlimited PTO
- Health care
- Career development budget
- Technology reimbursement
- Flexible schedules built on trust

Location Remote across the US and Canada. We are open to candidates living anywhere in either country, with at least 5 to 6 hours of daily overlap with our EST-based team required. For candidates living in Toronto, our office is conveniently located at 325 Front St West (a short walk from Union Station), and you are welcome to drop by, though it is entirely optional and not a hybrid requirement.

Travel Expectations Although this role is remote, you may be expected to travel up to once per quarter for off-sites and team gatherings.

## Compensation

The base salary range for this role is USD $150,000 to $185,000 for candidates based in the United States and CAD $130,000 to $170,000 for candidates based in Canada, benchmarked to the middle of the market for comparable venture-backed companies. Where you land in the range reflects your applied experience and other criteria established by the hiring committee.

Hiring Journey At FutureFit AI, our hiring process is designed to help you assess whether this role and our culture are the right fit based on your unique skills, mindset, and experiences. We move fast and work with intensity, so we want you to get a real sense of that from the start. Each journey includes a mix of interviews and a performance challenge. For this role, that might look like:

- Online Application
- Initial Screen with Talent Acquisition
- Interview with Hiring Manager
- Coding Challenge
- Design Challenge
- 2nd Interview with Head of GTM
- 3rd Interview with CEO
- Final Decision

Generally, this entire process takes around 6 weeks, although the timing can vary due to specific candidate circumstances.

Ready to shape the future of work? At FutureFit AI, we're not just building a company—we're transforming how talent and opportunity connect. Join our driven team united by a commitment to job seekers and the workforce ecosystems we serve.

Company Snapshot:

- Team: 30-50 across US and Canada (hubs in NYC and Toronto)
- Customers: 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.

## About FutureFit AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: FutureFit AI provides an AI-powered workforce development platform that connects people to careers, employers to talent, and workforce partners to integrated, intelligent workforce systems.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; total funding of $5.4M)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, United States (with dual hubs in Toronto, Canada)
- **Founded**: Year not explicitly stated in available data (active since at least 2018, based on a grant round)
- **Founders**: Terralynn Forsyth (co-founder, left March 2026) – other founders not publicly listed.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI-powered workforce development, human resources technology, government workforce systems, economic development.
- **Target customers**: B2B – Fortune 500 companies, governments, workforce development organizations, and economic development agencies. Also serves enterprises (employee upskilling/reskilling) and job seekers indirectly through partners.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To empower individuals, employers, and communities to thrive in our new world of work by building better pathways between people, skills, and opportunities.”

## Products & Services
- **Pathways Platform**: An AI-powered solution for governments and workforce organizations that provides personalized career navigation, skills-based path recommendations, and tailored roadmaps to quality learning and jobs. Type: SaaS platform.
- **Career Copilot**: An AI career assistant that adapts to individual career needs, the world of work, and organizational context. Type: SaaS, AI assistant.
- **Labor Exchange**: The only AI-powered labor exchange built for the public workforce system, connecting job seekers to employers. Type: SaaS platform.
- **Career Navigation**: Identifies an individual’s starting point, recommends skills-based career paths, and offers a tailored roadmap to learning and careers. Type: SaaS module.
- **Talent Pipelines for Industry**: Creates personalized pathways in a region to connect local talent to key growth industries. Type: SaaS module.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $5,360,544 (as of most recent data). Seed round of $4.6M (March 2022) led by Acumen and JPMorgan Chase. Additional seed rounds from Achieve Partners and others.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Acumen, JPMorgan Chase, Achieve Partners. Also recognized by Wall Street Journal, World Economic Forum, US Government, UK Government, and Nesta.
- **Growth Signals**: Platform ingests data from 350 million talent profiles, 80,000 job titles, and 30,000 skills. The company has 29 employees (as of mid-2026) but saw a -21.1% YoY headcount decline. However, job postings have increased +200% YoY, indicating renewed hiring. Dual hub offices in Toronto and New York.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Labor Market Data**: Uses real-time global labor market intelligence and proprietary algorithms designed to avoid perpetuating biases.
- **Scale of Data**: 350M+ talent profiles, 50M+ users supported, 100K+ talent pipelines.
- **Focus on Equity and Access**: Emphasis on equitable, accessible, and responsible AI for underserved communities.
- **End-to-End Workforce Solution**: Covers career navigation, reskilling, job placement, and labor exchange in a single platform, differentiating from point-solution competitors.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding partnerships with governments and workforce development organizations (e.g., US and UK government adoption).
- Scaling the Career Copilot product for enterprise clients seeking internal talent mobility.
- Building out the Labor Exchange for public workforce systems.
- Current active job postings (6 roles) in engineering, data science, brand, finance, and operations suggest a focus on platform and product team growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture Highlights**: Values-driven mission (“connect more people to better jobs, faster and cheaper”), founder access, high velocity/high intensity environment.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office Policy**: Flexible, trust-based scheduling – not fully remote but dual hubs in Toronto and New York (offices in both cities). Described as “flexible lifestyle” with “work-life harmony”.
- **Notable Perks**: Unlimited paid time off, dedicated professional development budget, 401k (US only), technology reimbursement program, comprehensive healthcare.
- **Engineering Culture**: Active hiring for senior backend and data science roles; emphasizes intentional hiring process with performance challenges. Engineering team is 10 people (33% of headcount).

## Sources
1. [futurefit.ai/careers](https://www.futurefit.ai/careers)
2. [futurefit.ai/about-us](https://www.futurefit.ai/about-us)
3. [futurefit.ai/](https://www.futurefit.ai/)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/futurefitai](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/futurefitai)
5. [linkedin.com/company/futurefit-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/futurefit-ai)

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