Remote Backend Engineer — Python, AWS & GenAI

SCALEUP; San Carlos de Bariloche; Remote; ARS 106,291,000 - 151,844,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Long-term contract

International collaboration

Job summary

SCALEUP is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems in Python, with a focus on AI and GenAI workloads. This fully remote, contractor role offers ownership of end-to-end backend architecture, APIs, and deployment, with AWS integrations and modern tooling.

The ideal candidate has extensive Python backend experience, proficiency in FastAPI/Flask/Django, and hands-on exposure to AI/GenAI ecosystems, vector databases, embeddings, and data pipelines.

Qualifications

• Strong professional experience with Python backend development.
• Experience with FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
• Experience designing and building scalable APIs and backend services.
• Exposure to AI/ML or GenAI applications, including model integrations, vector databases, embeddings, or document-processing systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services.
• Experience with Docker and modern deployment pipelines.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and service-to-service communication.
• Understanding of functional programming concepts and maintainable software design.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.
• Professional-level English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable backend systems using Python and frameworks such as 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, and other 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 and reliability.
• 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 and backend services

AI/GenAI integrations

AWS services

Docker

Distributed systems async

Functional programming concepts

English communication

Independent work

Tools

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Job description

SCALEUP is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems in Python, with a focus on AI and GenAI workloads. This fully remote, contractor role offers ownership of end-to-end backend architecture, APIs, and deployment, with AWS integrations and modern tooling.

The ideal candidate has extensive Python backend experience, proficiency in FastAPI/Flask/Django, and hands-on exposure to AI/GenAI ecosystems, vector databases, embeddings, and data pipelines.