Remote Senior AI Backend Orchestrator (Agentic Systems)

Decskill; Lisboa; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Decskill, part of the Astek Group, is growing and hiring backend-focused engineers for remote work from Portugal. You’ll contribute to scalable, cloud-native services and AI‑assisted tooling in a collaborative environment.

Join a diverse team of engineers, platform and product specialists, delivering robust APIs, resilient microservices, and secure integrations across enterprise systems. English proficiency required.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in backend development using modern software engineering practices.
• Solid knowledge of distributed systems, REST APIs, asynchronous processing and event-driven architectures.
• Experience building scalable cloud-native applications and microservices.
• Ability to develop orchestration services connecting AI agents, business logic, enterprise APIs and human approvals.
• Expertise in long-running workflows, persistent state management, retries and fault recovery.
• Experience integrating enterprise applications through APIs, messaging platforms and event-based architectures.
• Strong software design skills, with a focus on maintainability, resilience and reusable components.
• Ability to develop services for retrieval, context assembly, tool execution and memory management.
• Knowledge of authentication, authorization, API security and secure software development.
• Experience implementing logging, metrics, tracing and telemetry for backend services.
• Comfortable collaborating with AI engineers, platform engineers, data engineers, product managers and domain specialists.
• Fluency in English.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools and engineering automation is a strong plus.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

REST APIs

Asynchronous processing

Event-driven

Cloud-native

Microservices

AI integration

State management

Security (API)

Logging & telemetry

English fluency

AI tooling

Job description

Decskill, part of the Astek Group, is growing and hiring backend-focused engineers for remote work from Portugal. You’ll contribute to scalable, cloud-native services and AI‑assisted tooling in a collaborative environment.

Join a diverse team of engineers, platform and product specialists, delivering robust APIs, resilient microservices, and secure integrations across enterprise systems. English proficiency required.