Remote AI Backend Engineer — Guardrails & Cross-Service APIs

Eliassen Group; Cheyenne (WY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Full 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, architect backend services, APIs, and enforceable patterns for consistent AI-driven behavior. The role requires hands-on leadership, strong Python and TypeScript skills, and cross-service delivery experience.

This contract-to-hire opportunity offers a W2 arrangement with medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

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.
• Experience with agentic workflows or multi‑agent systems.
• Familiarity with LLM integration patterns such as prompt injection detection, guardrail design, or output filtering.

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 proficiency

TypeScript proficiency

Cross-service collaboration

Mentoring engineers

Defensive design

Tools

AWS (Lambda/Fargate/API Gateway)

Terraform

Observability tooling

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking an AI Software Engineer to design and deliver guardrail components across services, architect backend services, APIs, and enforceable patterns for consistent AI-driven behavior. The role requires hands-on leadership, strong Python and TypeScript skills, and cross-service delivery experience.

This contract-to-hire opportunity offers a W2 arrangement with medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.