Backend AI Infra Engineer — Remote, Equity, High Impact

Sowelo Consulting; Poland; Remote; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Equity

Job summary

Sowelo Consulting is seeking a Backend Engineer specializing in AI infrastructure to own inference and orchestration layers powering AI-powered features across client platforms. You will build, run, and optimize scalable, low-latency services in production, balancing performance, reliability, and cost.

The role emphasizes collaboration with ML engineers, designing high-performance pipelines, monitoring health, and shipping robust APIs for web and mobile, in a fully remote, globally distributed

Qualifications

• Proven backend development experience in production environments.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with low-latency, high-throughput microservices and AI inference.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate scalable backend systems that serve AI-powered features in production.
• Design high-performance inference pipelines, orchestration workflows, and clear service boundaries around ML models.
• Own system health and observability, including performance monitoring, structured logging, alerting, and incident response.
• Optimize system latency and throughput through intelligent caching strategies, request batching, and response streaming.
• Collaborate with client and ML engineers to deliver stable, high-efficiency APIs for web and mobile.

Skills

Python

Node.js

Docker

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

AI inference

Logging/Observability

Performance tuning

Tools

OpenAI API

Anthropic API

Self-hosted models

Job description

Sowelo Consulting is seeking a Backend Engineer specializing in AI infrastructure to own inference and orchestration layers powering AI-powered features across client platforms. You will build, run, and optimize scalable, low-latency services in production, balancing performance, reliability, and cost.

The role emphasizes collaboration with ML engineers, designing high-performance pipelines, monitoring health, and shipping robust APIs for web and mobile, in a fully remote, globally distributed