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Senior Backend Software Engineer | AI Engine

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1 month ago
Remote, BrazilSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and ship AI-powered features end to end while owning quality, latency, and cost.
  • Build backend services and APIs that operate reliably under production load.
  • Instrument systems, monitor metrics, and resolve performance or reliability issues.
  • Review code and technical designs and provide critical feedback.
  • Move prompt, retrieval, evaluation, and agent changes from experimentation to production.
  • Collaborate across product, design, data science, and engineering.

Requirements

  • Strong Python skills and a track record of shipping and operating production backends.
  • Solid AWS experience, including serverless Lambda.
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL systems, including DynamoDB, OpenSearch, and Postgres, with understanding of access patterns and scaling limits.
  • Experience designing, integrating, and monitoring production APIs.
  • Experience with event-driven systems such as Kafka and SQS.
  • Production observability experience with metrics, logs, traces, and alerts using Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Comfort with distributed systems and loosely scoped problems.
  • Experience with Kotlin, Golang, or Java, microservices, and distributed systems is mandatory for this role.
  • Strong communication, critical thinking, initiative, and collaboration skills.
  • Preferred experience includes data pipelines such as Airflow, production LLM-based systems, evaluation, prompts, retrieval, agentic workflows, and AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot.

Benefits

  • Remote work within Brazil, with flexible hybrid and remote options for this role.
  • Flexible schedules aligned with time zones, team needs, and personal routines.
  • Free Wellhub Gold+ membership, including access for up to three family members.
  • Wellz emotional wellbeing program with individual therapy sessions and on-demand content.
  • Health, dental, and life insurance.
  • Home office reimbursement.
  • Vacation eligibility after six months, additional annual days off, tenure-based days off, and a birthday holiday.
  • 100% paid parental leave, including extended leave and a ramp-back period for parents giving birth.
  • Career development platforms, interactive sessions, personalized development roadmaps, and internal opportunities.
  • Inclusive culture and equal opportunity employment.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBApache AirflowApache KafkaAWSGoGrafanaJavaKotlinPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonSQL
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1,001-5,000 employees
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