Senior Backend Engineer – Remote, AI-Powered, Scale-Up

Silver; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 181,747,000 - 272,620,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Laptop provided

Generous PTO

LATAM-friendly policies

Job summary

Prometeo Talent is partnering with a US-based cybersecurity startup to hire a Senior Backend Engineer. You will design, build, and maintain scalable backend services in Java and Python, with AI-assisted development workflows, across distributed systems and data pipelines.

The role emphasizes ownership, architecture involvement, and collaboration with a highly technical team in a fast-paced startup environment. 100% remote work from LATAM.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering or backend development experience.
• 5+ years Python development for production backend systems.
• Strong experience with Java.
• Hands-on AI/LLM-based development in production.
• Experience building AI-driven features, LLM integrations, or agentic workflows.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and scalable architectures.
• Experience with databases, message queues, and data processing pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Java and Python.
• Develop distributed systems with databases, APIs, queues, and data pipelines.
• Own features from design to monitoring and optimization.
• Build production-ready systems with reliability and performance focus.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Improve system performance, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery without compromising quality.
• Participate in architectural discussions and influence key technical decisions.

Job description

Prometeo Talent is partnering with a US-based cybersecurity startup to hire a Senior Backend Engineer. You will design, build, and maintain scalable backend services in Java and Python, with AI-assisted development workflows, across distributed systems and data pipelines.

The role emphasizes ownership, architecture involvement, and collaboration with a highly technical team in a fast-paced startup environment. 100% remote work from LATAM.