Remote AI Backend Engineer – Guardrail & API Systems

Eliassen Group; Montpelier (VT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking an AI Software Engineer to design and deliver guardrail components across services. You will architect backend services, APIs, and integrations that govern AI-driven system behavior across the engineering workflow, with hands-on leadership in Python and TypeScript.

The role requires cross-service delivery experience and patterns adopted by other engineers. This is a contract-to-hire position with W2 payroll and benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k matching,

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Python and TypeScript.
• Advanced experience in AWS, including Lambda, Fargate, and API Gateway.
• Advanced experience with Infrastructure as Code in production, including Terraform.
• Proven ability to design and implement scalable backend services and APIs across service boundaries.
• History of defining enforcement patterns and interface contracts consumed by other teams.
• Ability to reason about cross‑service dependencies, failure propagation, and contract stability.
• Clear communication of defensive design principles.
• Experience designing enforcement, filtering, or validation logic spanning multiple services.
• Track record of defining interfaces, contracts, or patterns adopted by other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver backend services and APIs that enforce system behavior across multiple services.
• Define where and how enforcement, filtering, and validation occur within system architectures.
• Build cross‑service controls and establish patterns for other engineers to implement.
• Instrument and improve observability across service boundaries, including structured logging, metrics, and distributed tracing.
• Own shared tooling and platform components with broad organizational reach.
• Mentor engineers on safe design, defensive programming, and failure handling practices.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Cross-service delivery

Defensive programming

Tools

AWS

Terraform

API Gateway

Fargate

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking an AI Software Engineer to design and deliver guardrail components across services. You will architect backend services, APIs, and integrations that govern AI-driven system behavior across the engineering workflow, with hands-on leadership in Python and TypeScript.

The role requires cross-service delivery experience and patterns adopted by other engineers. This is a contract-to-hire position with W2 payroll and benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k matching,