Backend Developer – AI Platform

About the role

Zof AI is looking for a Backend Developer to own the services, APIs, and data layer that power its fleet of AI agents. The role involves building job orchestration, managing PostgreSQL schemas, and handling storage for evidence and validation artifacts produced by the agents.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the services and APIs that run the agent fleets.
• Implement job orchestration and queueing for long‑running agent workloads.
• Own PostgreSQL schema design, migrations, and query performance as data scales.
• Develop storage and retrieval paths for evidence and trace data generated by agents.
• Instrument services for observability, debugging, and recovery.
• Ensure reliability through testing, retries, idempotency, and back‑pressure handling.
• Collaborate with product and AI engineers to turn agent behavior into stable interfaces.
• Manage backend systems from design through production deployment.

Required profile

• Proven experience building and shipping backend services in production.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL, preferably PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with APIs, queues, and asynchronous job processing.
• Ability to debug performance and correctness issues in live systems.
• Habit of writing tests and providing evidence before shipping code.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfort working in a fast‑moving environment.

Required skills

• TypeScript
• Node.js
• Python
• PostgreSQL
• SQL
• APIs
• Queues
• Asynchronous job processing
• Distributed systems
• Event‑driven architecture
• Streaming pipelines
• Cloud platforms
• Containers
• CI/CD

What we offer

• Salary range GHS 6,500–13,000 per month plus equity.
• Full living package including housing, meals, equipment, and wellness support where applicable.
• Housing support or provided accommodation.
• Private chef, meals, laundry and cleaning services where applicable.
• MacBook Pro and premium AI development tools (Cursor Ultra, Claude Code Ultra, OpenAI Codex Max).
• Focused builder environment with sports and wellness facilities (basketball court, table tennis, foosball, massage, fitness).