Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Remote

Employment: Full-Time

Experience: 5+ Years

Working Hours: 6:00 PM - 3:00 AM IST (aligned with EST)

Preferred: Startup / High-Growth Technology Experience

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer who combines deep, hands-on AI expertise with robust backend engineering. Our backend stack is primarily Python. We strongly prefer candidates with a Computer Science or Computer Engineering background and strong core systems fundamentals, with C/C++ experience being a major plus.

The ideal candidate is genuinely AI-native and highly curious - someone who actively follows the latest developments in AI, builds with current models and infrastructure, and stays plugged into technical communities such as X and Git Hub. Crucially, this pull toward AI is intrinsic. It shows up in what they build and follow on their own time, not because a past employer required it.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
Build production AI features using LLMs, agents, RAG, vector databases, inference, tool calling,



and AI automation Evaluate and implement emerging AI models, inference platforms, frameworks, and developer tools Design, build, and scale backend systems, APIs, services, and integrations using Python Own features end to end, from architecture through deployment and iteration Debug, optimize, and improve system performance, scalability, and reliability Use AI coding tools extensively to improve engineering speed and quality WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
5+ years of software engineering experience Significant hands-on experience with AI and LLMs and contemporary AI infrastructure Strong, skilled Python backend engineering experience - Python should be a primary language you have built and shipped production systems in, not a secondary or occasional one Strong Computer Science / Engineering fundamentals C/C++ or low-level systems experience highly preferred Understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, networking, performance, or operating systems Experie

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