Senior Python Backend Engineer — Remote, Durable Workflows

BairesDev; Bogotá; Remote; COP 379,687,000 - 569,530,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

USD pay

Home setup

Flexible hours

Parental leave

Global team

Mentorship & growth

Job summary

BairesDev is seeking a Senior Python Backend Engineer to design and implement the control plane of a system that writes its own code and coordinates AI models. You will build durable workflow orchestration with Temporal, create reliable backend services, and ensure secure adapter layers for agent actions.

The role emphasizes architectural rigor, distributed state management, and high-quality data modeling. This fully remote position offers competitive compensation in USD or local currency and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in backend software engineering.
• Strong proficiency in Python; Go is acceptable as a secondary language.
• Proven experience with durable workflow orchestration using Temporal, or a genuine state-ownership equivalent such as Cadence, Camunda, or Step Functions.
• Experience with agentic system engineering and tool mediation, including plan-act-observe-correct loops and agent adapters.
• Background in context engineering, including structural code retrieval using tools such as Tree-sitter, language servers, ripgrep, or Git.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and relational data modeling for run state, provenance, and evidence tracking.
• Advanced proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Build the harness control plane and backend services using Python, including workflows, the harness API, and agent adapters.
• Implement durable workflow orchestration using Temporal, including retries, pause/resume, human approval gates, and fan-out/fan-in patterns.
• Build agent adapters and tool mediation through an MCP gateway, ensuring agents propose actions without direct access to credentials.
• Compile minimal, task-specific context using structural code retrieval rather than accumulating unnecessary context.
• Design PostgreSQL data models for run state, policy versions, evidence indexes, and provenance chains.

Skills

8+ years backend experience

Python

Go

Temporal

Cadence

Camunda

Step Functions

agentic system engineering

context engineering

Tree-sitter

language servers

ripgrep

Git

PostgreSQL

data modeling

English

Tools

PostgreSQL

Job description

BairesDev is seeking a Senior Python Backend Engineer to design and implement the control plane of a system that writes its own code and coordinates AI models. You will build durable workflow orchestration with Temporal, create reliable backend services, and ensure secure adapter layers for agent actions.

The role emphasizes architectural rigor, distributed state management, and high-quality data modeling. This fully remote position offers competitive compensation in USD or local currency and