Backend Engineer - AI-Powered Search & Applications (Remote | Immediate Joiners)

Join Proximity Works, one of the world’s most ambitious AI technology companies, shaping the future of Sports, Media, and Entertainment. Since 2019, Proximity Works has created and scaled AI-driven products used by 697 million daily users, generating $73.5 billion in enterprise value for our partners. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Los Angeles, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore, we help global brands discover high-impact AI use cases, build transformative tech stacks, and scale to hundreds of millions of users.

If you’re excited about building high-performance backend systems at the frontier of AI, this role will give you the opportunity to make global impact.

Role Summary

We are seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale resilient microservices and APIs that power next-generation AI products. You will partner closely with ML engineers and data scientists to productionize LLMs, RAG pipelines, and multimodal models, ensuring inference is fast, cost-efficient, and production-grade. This is a hands-on role for someone passionate about distributed systems, performance optimization, and bringing cutting-edge AI to millions of users.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build scalable microservices that power Proximity’s AI-driven search and discovery stack.
• Develop backend services and APIs to support LLM-powered applications.

Collaborate with ML engineers and data scientists to integrate RAG pipelines, multimodal models, and inference workloads into production.

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