Lead Python Architect for Agentic AI

Deutsche Telekom AG; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Deutsche Telekom Services Europe (DTSE) is seeking an experienced senior software lead to drive the development of Python backends for LLM-backed agent applications and to guide a team of engineers through architecture decisions and best practices.

You will improve and stabilize existing systems, implement new features, and collaborate with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of production-grade software experience in Python.
• Experience leading engineers or teams and defining engineering standards.
• Proficient in API design, distributed systems, scalability, observability, and production operations.
• Knowledge of LLM and Agentic AI frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex); Azure/OpenAI APIs is a plus.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, MongoDB.
• Cloud and DevOps: Docker, CI/CD (GitHub Actions / GitLab CI), Azure/AWS/GCP.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and improvement of Python backends for LLM-backed agent applications and our Agentic AI platform.
• Provide technical direction for a team of Agentic AI engineers; define standards and review architecture.
• Stabilize and enhance existing solutions, with better visualization, automated validations, observability, and QA.
• Translate business requirements into sustainable technical solutions; identify new use cases for automation and data science.
• Mentor engineers, coach best practices, and promote a strong software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders; explain complex tech clearly to non-tech colleagues.
• Drive architecture discussions, code reviews, and pair programming to deliver production-ready solutions.

Skills

Python backends

Technical leadership

Software architecture

LLM frameworks

Relational databases

RESTful APIs

Cloud & DevOps

English language

Tools

FastAPI

Pydantic

Temporal

LangChain

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

Azure OpenAI

OpenAI APIs

PostgreSQL

Redis

Elasticsearch

MongoDB

Docker

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Job description

Deutsche Telekom Services Europe (DTSE) is seeking an experienced senior software lead to drive the development of Python backends for LLM-backed agent applications and to guide a team of engineers through architecture decisions and best practices.

You will improve and stabilize existing systems, implement new features, and collaborate with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions across cloud environments.