Software Engineer, Backend

Job Title

Software Engineer, Backend

Role Summary

Backend engineer on product teams building CLI, web, and backend services that coordinate long-running work and durable state for semiconductor and AI infrastructure products.

Work with cross-functional teams across New York City, Silicon Valley, London, and Copenhagen to make production software dependable, observable, and easy to operate.

Experience Level

Mid-level — typically requires 4+ years of software engineering experience building backend systems.

Responsibilities

Design, operate, and improve backend services and interfaces that span developer machines, web frontends, and server-side execution.

• Design stable, well-typed interfaces across CLI, web, and backend services.
• Evolve Postgres schemas, write migrations, and manage durable event histories.
• Implement lifecycle, queueing, retry, cancellation, idempotency, and recovery for long-running tasks.
• Improve reliability and observability via metrics, traces, structured logs, and health checks.
• Find and remove performance bottlenecks in APIs, database access, and event processing.
• Improve testing, packaging, deployment, and migration practices across repositories and languages.
• Debug and operate software running on developer machines and containerized environments.

Requirements

Must-have technical experience and skills.

• 4+ years building backend production services relied on by engineers or customers.
• Experience designing APIs and data models; clear reasoning about concurrency and state.
• Experience operating production services with emphasis on reliability, observability, maintainability, and performance.
• Ability to debug across client, service, database, and deployment boundaries.
• Pragmatic judgment about when to invest in durable abstractions versus shipping straightforward solutions.

Nice-to-have:

• Postgres, Redis/Valkey, event-driven architectures, or high-volume stateful services.
• Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, or deploying software in resource-constrained on-premises environments.
• Developer tools, CLIs, workflow engines, job schedulers, or distributed execution systems.
• Domain knowledge in semiconductors, EDA, or hardware engineering workflows.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

Normal Computing is an equal opportunity employer. Reasonable accommodations are available at accommodations@normalcomputing.com.

About the Company

Company: Normal Computing

Headquarters: New York, NY, USA

Normal Computing develops software and hardware solutions for the semiconductor and AI infrastructure industries, specializing in ASICs for image and video diffusion inference and AI accelerators. The company focuses on architecture and microarchitecture of compute blocks, PE array design, ISA co-design, and FPGA prototyping.