Backend / Automation Engineer (AI Systems)
Remote · Contract (Part-Time to Full-Time) · US Eastern Hours Preferred · $8–$12/hr
We build production-grade AI automation systems for property-management companies and SMBs.
Not demos. Not slideware. Real systems that run unattended in production.
Our projects include:
- AI-powered email triage
- Document and invoice processing
- Multi-system data synchronization
- Human-in-the-loop review apps
- Workflow orchestration and automation
- Voice intake systems
- Browser automation and scraping where APIs don't exist
We move fast, ship end-to-end, and care deeply about reliability.
Why This Role Exists
We're growing faster than we can build.
We need an engineer who can take a scoped brief, own implementation, and deliver production-ready systems with minimal supervision. You won't be handed isolated tickets or busywork — you'll build systems businesses actually depend on.
If you enjoy integrations, debugging ugly APIs, automation reliability, and shipping practical AI systems, this role is for you.
What You'll Build
Current flagship engagement:
A multi-tenant automation platform for a commercial property-management firm that:
- Syncs Rent Manager and Microsoft 365 data into a local datastore
- Triages inbound maintenance emails
- Determines tenant-vs-landlord responsibility using lease data
- Detects utility-cost anomalies
- Generates organized audit invoice packages on demand
- Routes everything through a human review workflow
Upcoming systems include:
- Twilio + ElevenLabs voice intake
- Playwright/Skyvern browser automation
- AppFolio and Rent Manager write-backs
- AI-assisted operations tooling
What You'll Own
- Build scoped client automation systems end-to-end
- Design and harden integration pipelines
- Implement retries, idempotency, dead-letter handling, and monitoring
- Work with third-party APIs and undocumented edge cases
- Build deterministic guardrails around LLM workflows
- Write tests and validation fixtures for business logic
- Debug real production issues quickly and pragmatically
Must-Haves
- Claude SDK
- Supabase
- Vercel
- Git
- OAuth/token auth
- Pagination
- Webhooks
- Rate limits
- Retry logic
- Idempotency
- Failure recovery
- Silent-failure detection
- Schemas
- Upserts
- Multi-tenant scoping
- Able to work from scoped briefs and deliver independently
- Comfortable with AI-assisted development workflows (vibe coding) while still understanding and defending your i