Remote Backend Engineer, AI & LLM Systems

Emplay; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Emplay is seeking a backend engineer to join a remote team focused on Generative AI and LLM-driven products. You will build and maintain Python services using FastAPI or Flask, work on RAG pipelines, embeddings, and vector search, and integrate with AWS services.

Collaboration with product and engineering teams to ship features is essential. Ideal candidates have 1-2 years of experience with Python and generative AI, familiarity with LangChain or LlamaIndex, and comfort using AWS, REST APIs, and

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Python and generative AI or LLM development.
• Familiarity with RAG and vector search techniques.
• Comfort working with AWS cloud services; knowledge of FastAPI or Flask and REST APIs.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services using Python with FastAPI or Flask.
• Develop features powered by LLMs, including RAG pipelines.
• Work with embeddings, vector search, retrieval systems.
• Create AI agents and tool-based workflows using LangChain or LlamaIndex.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ship features.
• Write tests, monitor performance, and troubleshoot issues.

Skills

Python

LLM development

REST APIs

AWS

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Vector search

Testing

Tools

FastAPI

Flask

OpenSearch

DynamoDB

S3

API Gateway

Lambda

Job description

Emplay is seeking a backend engineer to join a remote team focused on Generative AI and LLM-driven products. You will build and maintain Python services using FastAPI or Flask, work on RAG pipelines, embeddings, and vector search, and integrate with AWS services.

Collaboration with product and engineering teams to ship features is essential. Ideal candidates have 1-2 years of experience with Python and generative AI, familiarity with LangChain or LlamaIndex, and comfort using AWS, REST APIs, and