Senior TypeScript Backend Engineer — AI & LLM Data (Remote)

BairesDev; Bogotá; Remote; COP 381,934,000 - 572,902,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work 100%

Competitive USD salary

Home office setup provided

Flexible hours

Paid parental leave

Job summary

BairesDev is seeking a senior backend engineer to build distributed systems that process data at scale. You will leverage TypeScript, work on RAG pipelines, and integrate with LLM APIs to power AI-driven features.

You will design scalable PostgreSQL-backed services with vector search, implement chunking/embeddings, and coordinate workflows via event-driven messaging. This is a fully remote role with competitive USD compensation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Hands-on data processing with Apache Spark.
• Strong PostgreSQL skills.
• Experience with vector databases like pgvector or Qdrant.
• Background building RAG pipelines.
• Experience with chunking and embeddings.
• Experience with LLM APIs such as Anthropic, OpenAI, or Bedrock.
• Experience with event‑driven messaging using AWS SQS, RabbitMQ, or BullMQ.
• Advanced proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Build distributed systems handling large-scale data processing.
• Design and maintain PostgreSQL databases with vector search capabilities.
• Build RAG pipelines, including chunking and embedding strategies.
• Integrate with LLM APIs to power AI-driven functionality.
• Implement event-driven messaging to coordinate distributed workflows.

Skills

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Apache Spark

PostgreSQL

Vector databases

RAG pipelines

Chunking & embeddings

LLM APIs

Event-driven messaging

English proficiency

5+ years experience

Job description

BairesDev is seeking a senior backend engineer to build distributed systems that process data at scale. You will leverage TypeScript, work on RAG pipelines, and integrate with LLM APIs to power AI-driven features.

You will design scalable PostgreSQL-backed services with vector search, implement chunking/embeddings, and coordinate workflows via event-driven messaging. This is a fully remote role with competitive USD compensation.