Senior Backend Engineer, AI-First Workflow Platform

Bevaya; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Bevaya is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to build high-reliability AI-first workflow engines for the insurance sector. You will design and run backend microservices and asynchronous workers using TypeScript and Python, backed by PostgreSQL, with a modern React frontend.

You will partner with product teams, surface edge cases early, and use AI tooling to accelerate delivery while ensuring data integrity and fault tolerance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience designing, building, and operating production backend microservices, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Strong command of Python or TypeScript, with ability to work across both languages.
• Solid grasp of distributed systems fundamentals, including concurrency, asynchronous task processing, idempotency, and failure recovery.
• Strong problem-solving skills and collaboration across technical and business teams.
• Experience with relational database design, indexing, and query optimization (preferably PostgreSQL).
• Track record of evaluating requirements, spotting edge cases, and proposing pragmatic technical tradeoffs before coding.
• Experience with automated testing, debugging, performance optimization, and version control.
• Familiarity integrating AI developer tools into daily engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain resilient backend services and asynchronous workflows that power insurance lifecycles.
• Collaborate with product and domain teams to translate requirements and surface edge cases early.
• Architect for operational reliability with multi-tenant isolation and fault recovery.
• Contribute to React frontend for dashboards and tooling when needed.
• Leverage AI tooling to reduce boilerplate and maintain engineering velocity.
• Own services end-to-end from design to deployment and observability.

Skills

Backend development

Python

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Async processing

Code reviews

Testing & debugging

AI tooling

SQL / PostgreSQL

Cloud & infra

Tools

PostgreSQL

Temporal

Cadence

Azure Storage

AWS S3

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

Bevaya is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to build high-reliability AI-first workflow engines for the insurance sector. You will design and run backend microservices and asynchronous workers using TypeScript and Python, backed by PostgreSQL, with a modern React frontend.

You will partner with product teams, surface edge cases early, and use AI tooling to accelerate delivery while ensuring data integrity and fault tolerance.