
Senior FastAPI Developer
Newcode.ai1 year ago
Remote, United States +10 moreSenior
Base Salary
$100k - $100k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build the APIs and backend services supporting the company’s products.
- Develop AI infrastructure for retrieval, orchestration, tool calling, response streaming, and output evaluations.
- Maintain reliable asynchronous and distributed workflows for document ingestion, embeddings, and long-running jobs on Redis.
- Build and scale integrations with clients’ email and document-storage systems.
- Protect confidential customer data through strong security and isolation practices.
- Make early architecture decisions and own backend reliability at production scale.
Requirements
- At least seven years of experience building production backend systems.
- At least six years of Python experience.
- At least three years of FastAPI experience.
- Experience with PostgreSQL and SQL.
- At least two years of Redis experience.
- Experience building or strong interest in LLM-powered systems, including RAG, tool calling, or agents.
- Experience with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot, with the ability to review and stand behind generated code.
- Nice-to-have experience with RAG or vector search, LangChain or LlamaIndex, streaming over SSE, WebSocket, or SignalR, and Microsoft Graph or email integrations.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-changing startup environment.
Benefits
- Remote, full-time work.
- Flexible, English-speaking environment.
- Opportunity to shape the product and company culture at an early-stage AI venture.
- Collaborative, high-energy team and opportunity to drive innovation.
- The employer is unable to provide visa sponsorship; candidates must be authorized to work in the applicable country without employer sponsorship.