Platform Engineer: AI-Driven Backend & Platform Automation

Valiant Technologies LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC in Chicago seeks an experienced AI/Backend Engineer to design, develop, test, and operate production-grade APIs and backend services. You will build developer-facing platforms and automation to accelerate platform adoption and ensure secure, scalable delivery.

You will own full SDLC responsibilities, collaborate across teams, and contribute to AI-enabled workflows, retrieval-augmented generation solutions, and enterprise integrations.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, developing, testing, and operating production-grade APIs.
• Ability to build self-service portals and automation to simplify adoption.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance optimization skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and operate production-grade APIs and backend services.
• Build self-service portals, platform catalogs, and automation to simplify adoption.
• Develop integrations across application services, databases, messaging, API gateways.
• Write secure, well-tested code and participate in reviews and design discussions.
• Own capabilities across the SDLC including CI/CD, deployment, rollback, and documentation.
• Build AI agents and AI-assisted workflows for architecture analysis and remediation.
• Develop retrieval-augmented generation solutions grounded in architecture docs and code.
• Integrate agents with enterprise APIs and tools via controlled interfaces.
• Implement evaluation frameworks for accuracy, safety, latency, and cost.
• Engineer production controls for AI systems with access restrictions and safe fallback.
• Automate architecture-review feedback and remediation tracking within workflows.

Skills

API design

Backend development

CI/CD practices

Code reviews

Performance optimization

Tools

Git

Docker

Python

Kubernetes

Job description

Valiant Technologies LLC in Chicago seeks an experienced AI/Backend Engineer to design, develop, test, and operate production-grade APIs and backend services. You will build developer-facing platforms and automation to accelerate platform adoption and ensure secure, scalable delivery.

You will own full SDLC responsibilities, collaborate across teams, and contribute to AI-enabled workflows, retrieval-augmented generation solutions, and enterprise integrations.