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Back End Developer, AI
Location
Europe
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Back End Developer, AI
OnHires
• You'll own the backend services that power AI interactions in production, ensuring they remain fast, reliable, and scalable as the platform grows. • Designing and building backend services for AI-powered product features • Developing inference pipelines and orchestration layers around LLMs • Creating reliable APIs used by web, desktop, and mobile applications • Optimizing latency, throughput, caching, batching, and streaming • Building monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across production services • Debugging distributed systems and improving platform reliability • Working closely with product, infrastructure, and AI engineers to continuously improve performance
Job Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience in production environments
- Experience building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems
- Excellent Python skills (Node.js is a plus)
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes and Docker
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Familiarity with modern AI infrastructure, including LLM inference, embeddings, or multimodal models
- A pragmatic engineering mindset focused on shipping reliable software.
- Nice to have
- Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source LLMs
- Experience building AI orchestration or agent workflows
- Knowledge of inference optimization techniques
- Experience operating AI services at scale
Benefits
- Cash + Equity
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