Backend Engineer, AI Engineering: Duo Chat

Talanto; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock (

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Team Member Resource Groups

Job summary

Talanto is seeking a Backend Engineer for the AI-powered Duo Chat platform. You will build the engine in Python, maintain the agentic runtime, and connect Chat to the Rails-based monolith. Remote, globally distributed team across time zones.

The role emphasizes secure, well-tested code and collaboration with Product, UX, and Frontend teams. Strong Python experience and API design are required.

Qualifications

• Proficient in building production-grade Python services.
• Experience designing and consuming APIs with a focus on performance.

Responsibilities

• Develop secure, well-tested features for the Duo Chat engine.
• Extend agentic flows in Python via LangGraph and Duo Workflow Service.
• Integrate Chat with the Rails monolith and its GraphQL API.
• Write maintainable code with tests for every merge.
• Review code following internal guidelines and assist teammates.

Skills

Python

GraphQL

API design

Security best practices

Remote collaboration

Tools

Ruby on Rails

LangGraph

LangChain

GraphQL

RSpec

Job description

Backend Engineer, AI Engineering: Duo Chat

Python GraphQL Ruby 9,600-16,200 $

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An overview of this role

As a Backend Engineer on the Chat Engine team, you'll build the engine behind •••••• Duo Chat, the conversational AI experience for •••••• . You'll work primarily in Python to build and maintain our agentic runtime: the Flow Registry, LangGraph flows, and the Duo Workflow Service. You'll also work in the •••••• Rails monolith, where Chat connects with the product.

You'll own scoped parts of the system, ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance, and collaborate with the team on larger projects. You'll work alongside senior and staff engineers who will partner with you on design and support your growth.

What you’ll do

• Develop secure, well-tested, and performant features and improvements for •••••• Duo Chat.
• Implement and extend agentic flows in Python using LangGraph, registered through the Flow Registry and served by the Duo Workflow Service.
• Integrate Chat capabilities with the •••••• Rails monolith, including its GraphQL application programming interface (API).
• Write maintainable code that meets our internal standards for a high-scale environment, including tests with every merge request.
• Review code within our Code Review Guidelines and respond promptly to contributions from people who don't work for ••••••.
• Identify technical debt and propose and implement solutions that improve the team's efficiency.
• Collaborate with Product Management, User Experience, and Frontend team members to improve product quality, security, and performance.
• Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 weekday, weekend, and occasional night on-call rotations to help troubleshoot product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.

What you’ll bring

• Professional experience with Python, including building and testing production services.
• Working proficiency with Ruby on Rails, or a willingness to learn it, since a meaningful part of Chat lives in the •••••• monolith.
• Exposure to, or strong interest in, building on top of large language models, including prompting, tool or function calling, evaluation, and the failure modes of non-deterministic systems.
• Experience designing and building APIs, including diagnosing and optimizing performance issues, and comfort working with well-documented third-party services.
• A security-minded development approach that applies secure coding guidelines early in the development process.
• Clear and concise written communication about technical problems and iterative solutions, which is essential in a remote, largely asynchronous environment.
• Manage work independently, organize priorities, and ask for help when an issue is taking longer than expected.
• Demonstrate •••••• 's values by collaborating effectively in a fully remote, intensely iterative environment.
• Experience with LangGraph, LangChain, or a comparable agent orchestration framework.
• Experience with GraphQL and RSpec.
• Experience with the •••••• product as a user or contributor.
• Experience working on a remote, globally distributed team.

About the team

We're part of •••••• 's AI Engineering organization and own the AI-powered chat experience embedded across the •••••• platform. Chat Engine is the backend-focused team within the Duo Chat group. We're backend, frontend, and AI specialists working asynchronously across time zones, using issues, merge requests, and documentation as our main collaboration tools. We focus on expanding generative and agentic AI capabilities, improving the performance and reliability of chat workflows, and strengthening the debugging and testing foundations that help us run AI features safely at scale.

United States Salary Range$115,200-$194,400 USD

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