Backend Engineer, AI Platform & Scalable Systems

Epiq; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Epiq AI Labs, the innovation hub behind Epiq's AI platform, seeks a backend engineer to own end-to-end services, data pipelines, and authentication in a scalable cloud setup. You’ll work with Python, PostgreSQL, and modern stacks to enable enterprise legal workflows.

Join a startup-like culture within a global organization, emphasizing autonomy, collaboration, and rapid iteration, with security and multi-tenant considerations at the core of your work.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience building and operating backend services in production
• Proficiency in Python, or strong proficiency in a comparable language and the ability to work primarily in Python
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Working experience with relational databases, including schema design, query optimization, and migrations (PostgreSQL preferred)
• Experience with asynchronous or event-driven processing, such as message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka, or comparable) or task workers
• Experience designing and implementing REST APIs consumed by other services or teams
• Experience with automated testing and continuous integration practices
• Familiarity with containerized deployment (Docker, and exposure to Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with observability practices, including metrics, logging, and tracing
• Demonstrated proficiency using AI tools in software development
• Clear written and verbal communication, and the ability to make progress on ambiguous problems with appropriate guidance

Responsibilities

• Implement, test, and operate backend services and APIs that support our agentic AI platform
• Build and maintain message-queue-based asynchronous processing, including retry and idempotency handling, dead-letter processing, and failure recovery
• Contribute to data pipelines that ingest, parse, store, and index large volumes of documents
• Implement authentication and authorization functionality using OAuth2, OIDC, and SAML within established patterns, including role-based access control for multi-tenant environments
• Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas and queries, and carry out schema migrations against live production traffic
• Integrate search and vector storage technologies such as Solr and Qdrant
• Instrument services with metrics, logs, and traces; monitor service health and participate in the on-call rotation
• Write automated tests, participate in code review, and maintain continuous integration pipelines
• Contribute to technical design documents and participate in design review
• Collaborate with AI engineers, other backend engineers, product management, and security stakeholders

Skills

Backend services

Python

REST APIs

Cloud platforms

Observability

Async processing

Tools

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Solr

Qdrant

OAuth2 / OIDC / SAML

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Epiq AI Labs, the innovation hub behind Epiq's AI platform, seeks a backend engineer to own end-to-end services, data pipelines, and authentication in a scalable cloud setup. You’ll work with Python, PostgreSQL, and modern stacks to enable enterprise legal workflows.

Join a startup-like culture within a global organization, emphasizing autonomy, collaboration, and rapid iteration, with security and multi-tenant considerations at the core of your work.