Senior Backend/Product Engineer (AI Platform)

TL;DR

Senior Backend/Product Engineer (AI Platform): Building and scaling an AI-powered cost intelligence platform with an accent on productionalizing AI-enabled capabilities like anomaly detection, recommendations, and agent-based workflows. Focus on designing backend-heavy systems with evaluation criteria, feedback loops, guardrails for accuracy, latency, cost, and explainability to ensure reliable AI features.

Location: Remote

Company

Global technology services company with over 4,000 professionals across 130+ countries, specializing in cloud architecture, engineering, and transformation to help enterprises deliver at scale.

What you will do

• Design and build backend-heavy platform features.
• Productionalize AI-enabled capabilities such as anomaly detection, recommendations, and agent-based workflows.
• Implement AI across the SDLC: prototyping, testing, iteration, and deployment.
• Collaborate with Product to turn vision into shipped features.
• Shape engineering standards and patterns for maturing AI product features.
• Design systems for model evaluation, prompt management, deterministic fallbacks, and observability.

Requirements

• 8+ years professional software engineering experience.
• Strong backend engineering background (full-stack a plus).
• Hands-on experience building on AWS.
• Strong proficiency in Python (Java/C++ acceptable as secondary).
• Demonstrated experience using AI in real production systems with repeatable patterns.
• Ability to architect backend services for asynchronous workflows, event-driven pipelines, and AI agents.

Culture & Benefits

• High ownership and high trust environment.
• Significant autonomy and direct access to product leadership.
• Founding-engineer level influence without chaos.
• Work closely with experienced engineering and delivery teams.
• Exposure to broader cloud optimization and consulting initiatives.