Remote AI Backend Engineer — Senior, Microservices

Next Engineering; Portugal; Remote; EUR 16,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Food Allowance

Flex Benefits

Job summary

Next Engineering is seeking a senior backend engineer in Portugal to drive cloud-native microservices and scalable architectures. You will work on distributed systems, APIs, asynchronous processing and event-driven designs, ensuring secure and reusable software across enterprise integrations.

The role emphasizes collaboration with AI engineers, product managers and platform engineers on cutting-edge projects. Remote work is possible with competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and APIs.
• Experience building cloud-native apps and microservices.
• Experience integrating enterprise apps via REST APIs and messaging.
• Strong software design for maintainability and resilience.
• Expertise in workflow state, long-running processes, retries and fault recovery.
• Knowledge of authentication, authorization and API security.
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams including AI engineers and product managers.
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend development following modern software engineering practices.
• Design scalable, fault-tolerant architectures for cloud-native microservices.
• Integrate enterprise applications via REST APIs and messaging platforms.
• Ensure secure design and implementation of APIs and services.
• Collaborate with AI engineers, product managers and platform teams.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

APIs

Asynchronous processing

Event-driven architectures

Cloud-native

Microservices

REST APIs

Messaging platforms

Event-based architectures

Software design

Maintainability

Resilience

Reusable architecture

Workflow state management

Long-running processes

Retries

Fault recovery

Authentication

Authorization

API security

Secure SDLC

Cross-functional teams

AI collaboration

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Next Engineering is seeking a senior backend engineer in Portugal to drive cloud-native microservices and scalable architectures. You will work on distributed systems, APIs, asynchronous processing and event-driven designs, ensuring secure and reusable software across enterprise integrations.

The role emphasizes collaboration with AI engineers, product managers and platform engineers on cutting-edge projects. Remote work is possible with competitive compensation.