Senior Backend Engineer — AI-Native & Scalable, Remote

Epam Systems; Municipio de Rincón de los Sauces; Remote; ARS 152,060,000 - 236,537,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor USD payments

100% remote work

Argentina holidays

English classes

Referral program

Access to learning platforms

Job summary

Darwoft is partnering with an innovative software company to join a Senior/Staff Software Engineer role in LATAM. You will design and evolve a large production codebase, build backend services and APIs, and guide architecture decisions in an AI-native development environment.

You will work remotely from LATAM, employing Claude Code, Codex, and other AI agents to drive fast yet reliable delivery while maintaining high quality and ownership of the product.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software or backend experience.
• 5+ years Python production backend experience.
• Strong experience with Java.
• Hands-on AI/LLM-based development experience.
• Experience with AI agents or agentic workflows in production.
• Distributed systems, scalable architectures and asynchronous processing.
• Experience with databases, message queues, and data pipelines.
• Production-ready Docker and Kubernetes experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Java and Python.
• Develop distributed systems involving databases, APIs, queues, and data pipelines.
• Own features end-to-end from design to monitoring and optimization.
• Build reliable, high-performance production systems.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to translate business needs into tech solutions.
• Improve system performance and operational efficiency across the platform.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining quality.
• Participate in architectural discussions and key technical decisions.
• Continuously improve development processes, tooling, and engineering standards.

Skills

Python

Java

AI/LLM

Distributed systems

Docker

Kubernetes

Ownership mindset

English

Tools

Claude Code

OpenAI Codex

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Windsurf

Job description

Darwoft is partnering with an innovative software company to join a Senior/Staff Software Engineer role in LATAM. You will design and evolve a large production codebase, build backend services and APIs, and guide architecture decisions in an AI-native development environment.

You will work remotely from LATAM, employing Claude Code, Codex, and other AI agents to drive fast yet reliable delivery while maintaining high quality and ownership of the product.