Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MeridianLink is a company that builds tools to help credit unions support their members at critical financial moments. The Sr AI Engineer will be responsible for owning data-heavy features, improving data models, and ensuring the reliability of production systems while leveraging AI coding tools.
Responsibilities
- Own data-heavy features from design through production, planning pragmatic solutions for rising traffic and data volume
- Improve data models, pipelines, migrations, and multi-tenant systems
- Work in our TypeScript monorepo with Hono, Drizzle/Postgres, and AWS infrastructure managed with SST/Pulumi across Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, and S3. Experience with Terraform, AWS CDK, or similar tools transfers well. You may also touch React 19 and React Router 7 when work crosses into the product
- Monitor production, investigate issues, and fix root causes
- Help the team make clear, practical technical decisions
Skills
- 5+ years building, scaling, and running production software
- Strong backend engineering skills in a typed language, including experience integrating third-party and public APIs such as OpenAI or Anthropic Claude
- Experience with relational data modeling, migrations, and production data systems
- Sound judgment when working with sensitive data and high-impact changes
- Current, hands-on experience using AI coding tools and reviewing their output
- Clear written communication, product sense, and comfort owning work end to end
- Experience with TypeScript, Postgres, serverless AWS, or event-driven systems is useful; exact framework overlap is not required
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