Senior Backend Engineer — Remote, Scalable AI Systems

Darwoft; La Pampa; A distancia; ARS 182.310.000 - 273.465.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Contractor in USD

100% remote

Argentina holidays

English classes

Referral program & learning platforms

Descripción de la vacante

Prometeo Talent is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services in a fast-moving startup setting. You will work with Java and Python, leverage AI-assisted development workflows, and own features from design through deployment.

The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration with product and engineering, and delivering reliable, high-performance systems across cloud environments.

Formación

• 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.
• Experience building AI-driven features, LLM integrations, or agentic workflows in production environments.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, scalable architectures, and asynchronous processing.
• Experience 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

Responsabilidades

• Design, develop, and maintain production-grade data collectors, connectors, and ingestion services.
• Integrate enterprise data sources including identity providers, cloud platforms, SASE solutions, network infrastructure, endpoints, applications, security platforms, and SIEM systems.
• Work directly with enterprise customers to understand environments, data flows, APIs, security requirements, and integration constraints.
• Participate in technical onboarding processes from discovery to production deployment.
• Design scalable ingestion architectures for processing security events, logs, identity activity, and other high-volume data sources.
• Build integrations using REST APIs, cloud-native services, event-driven architectures, and modern software practices.
• Develop backend services primarily using Python and/or Go.
• Work with SQL and NoSQL databases to store, transform, query, and analyze high-volume data.
• Build and operate containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Deploy and integrate solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Troubleshoot customer deployments across application, infrastructure, networking, API, and data layers.
• Optimize ingestion performance, reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor around customer data architecture and security integrations.
• Identify recurring requirements and turn them into reusable connectors or platform improvements.
• Contribute insights from real-world implementations to the product roadmap.
• Support production adoption and improve time-to-value for enterprise customers.
• Participate in occasional customer-facing technical sessions and onsite engagements.

Conocimientos

Python

Java

AI/LLM

Distributed systems

Ownership mindset

English

Herramientas

Docker

Kubernetes

REST APIs

CI/CD

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Descripción del empleo

Prometeo Talent is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services in a fast-moving startup setting. You will work with Java and Python, leverage AI-assisted development workflows, and own features from design through deployment.

The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration with product and engineering, and delivering reliable, high-performance systems across cloud environments.