Senior Backend Engineer: Scalable Systems AI-Driven Remote

Acciona It; Santa Fe Capital; Remote; ARS 151,455,000 - 242,329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote LATAM-friendly

Laptop provided

Generous PTO

Regional holidays

Autonomy and ownership

Job summary

Prometeo Talent is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services in a fast-paced startup environment. You will own features end-to-end, collaborating with a highly technical team while leveraging Java, Python, and AI/LLM-based workflows to boost productivity and quality.

The role emphasizes building distributed systems, understanding databases and messaging, and driving architectural decisions as the platform scales.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering or backend development.
• 5+ professional experience 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-based development

Distributed systems

Docker & Kubernetes

Ownership mindset

Advanced English

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

Prometeo Talent is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services in a fast-paced startup environment. You will own features end-to-end, collaborating with a highly technical team while leveraging Java, Python, and AI/LLM-based workflows to boost productivity and quality.

The role emphasizes building distributed systems, understanding databases and messaging, and driving architectural decisions as the platform scales.