Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Driven & Remote

Fullstack; Santa Fe Capital; Remote; ARS 90,873,000 - 181,747,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work from LATAM

Company-provided laptop

Generous PTO & regional holidays

Job summary

Prometeo Talent partners with a US-based cybersecurity startup to hire a Senior Backend Engineer who will design, build and scale distributed backend services in Java and Python. You’ll own features end-to-end, leverage AI-assisted development workflows, and collaborate with a highly technical team in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires 8+ years in software engineering, strong Python/Java experience, and hands-on AI/LLM development.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering or backend development.
• 5+ years with Python, building and maintaining production-grade backend systems.
• Strong experience with Java.
• Hands-on experience with AI/LLM-based application development (AI agents, agentic systems, or LLM-powered applications)
• Experience building AI-driven features, LLM integrations, or agentic workflows in production environments is highly preferred.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, scalable architectures, and asynchronous processing.
• Experience working with databases, message queues, and data processing pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Proven experience building, maintaining, optimizing, and improving products after launch.
• Strong ownership mindset, autonomy, and ability to thrive in startup or fast-paced environments.
• Advanced English level

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Java and Python.
• Develop distributed systems involving databases, APIs, message queues, and data processing pipelines.
• Take full ownership of features and services throughout their lifecycle, from design and implementation to monitoring and optimization.
• Build production-ready systems with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Improve system performance, scalability, and operational efficiency across the platform.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery while ensuring code quality and engineering best practices.
• Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to key technical decisions as the company scales.
• Continuously improve development processes, tooling, and engineering standards.

Skills

Python

Java

AI/LLM

Distributed systems

Docker

Kubernetes

Ownership mindset

English

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Prometeo Talent partners with a US-based cybersecurity startup to hire a Senior Backend Engineer who will design, build and scale distributed backend services in Java and Python. You’ll own features end-to-end, leverage AI-assisted development workflows, and collaborate with a highly technical team in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires 8+ years in software engineering, strong Python/Java experience, and hands-on AI/LLM development.