Remote Backend Engineer - Python, AWS & GenAI

SCALEUP; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Long-term contractor

International team

Advanced AI projects

Job summary

SCALEUP is hiring a Backend Engineer – Python, AWS & GenAIer for a fully remote role limited to Argentina. You will design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems powering AI/GenAI solutions, with end-to-end ownership from API design to deployment and monitoring.

Ideal candidates will have strong Python backend experience, hands-on AWS, and exposure to AI/GenAI workflows, vector databases, and embedding services, delivering reliable, scalable services in a distributed environment.

Qualifications

• Strong Python backend development experience.
• Experience with FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
• Designing and building scalable APIs and backend services.
• Exposure to AI/ML or GenAI applications, including model integrations.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services.
• Experience with Docker and modern deployment pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable backend systems using Python and frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
• Develop services for document retrieval, processing pipelines, and AI/GenAI workflows.
• Design reliable APIs that connect AI models, vector databases, embeddings, or document-processing systems.
• Build reusable Python components that integrate with AWS services.
• Work with containers, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems.
• Implement logging, metrics, tracing, and internal tools to monitor performance.
• Write clean, testable, and reusable code while separating business logic from infrastructure.
• Take ownership of backend systems and technical decisions end-to-end

Skills

Python backend development

FastAPI/Flask/Django

APIs & scalability

AWS services

Docker

Async/distributed systems

GenAI/AI integrations

English communication

Problem solving

Tools

Vector databases

Job description

SCALEUP is hiring a Backend Engineer – Python, AWS & GenAIer for a fully remote role limited to Argentina. You will design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems powering AI/GenAI solutions, with end-to-end ownership from API design to deployment and monitoring.

Ideal candidates will have strong Python backend experience, hands-on AWS, and exposure to AI/GenAI workflows, vector databases, and embedding services, delivering reliable, scalable services in a distributed environment.