Remote AI/ML Backend Engineer (Python)

Aimlroles; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Volga Partners is seeking a Software Development Engineer with strong Python backend systems expertise and AI/LLM experience for a fully remote role. You will build production-grade AI-powered systems, integrating large language models into real-world workflows across backend services, orchestration layers, and data pipelines.

This hands-on position requires problem-solving, system design skills, and the ability to operate in fast-evolving AI environments, collaborating with cross-functional

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years of backend or systems engineering experience.
• Experience integrating LLM APIs or AI-driven services.
• Strong Python development experience for production systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services and internal tools in Python for AI-powered applications.
• Integrate LLM APIs into production workflows, including prompt handling, response processing, validation, and retries.
• Design scalable REST APIs, async workflows, and background job systems.
• Maintain components of a multi-language codebase (C#/C++, Python, web technologies) where applicable.
• Work with structured and unstructured data to prepare inputs, transform outputs, and support downstream systems.
• Develop systems for prompt management, model routing, response validation, and failure handling.
• Debug complex issues across backend logic, API integrations, and distributed services.
• Monitor system performance using telemetry tools and proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks.
• Automate recurring workflows related to data processing, evaluation, and reporting.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn ambiguous product ideas into production-ready features.
• Contribute to architecture decisions around scalability, performance, and safe use of AI systems.
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code while helping establish engineering best practices for AI systems.

Skills

Python development

Backend system design

API development

Async workflows

LLM / AI integration

Docker

Azure/AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

Docker

Terraform

SQL Server

Elastic Stack

Postman

Swagger

AWS

Azure

Job description

Volga Partners is seeking a Software Development Engineer with strong Python backend systems expertise and AI/LLM experience for a fully remote role. You will build production-grade AI-powered systems, integrating large language models into real-world workflows across backend services, orchestration layers, and data pipelines.

This hands-on position requires problem-solving, system design skills, and the ability to operate in fast-evolving AI environments, collaborating with cross-functional