Remote Backend Engineer for AI-Driven Agentic Systems

Virtasant; Austin (TX); Ibrido; USD 110.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Totally remote

Biweekly or monthly USD payments

Flexible work hours

Descrizione del lavoro

Virtasant is seeking a fully remote backend-focused engineer to develop AI-powered features and agentic services. You will work primarily in Python for AI/Agent work and Java for integration with the client platform, stressing performance and data quality.

You will contribute to architecture discussions, perform testing, and collaborate with Product and QA to ensure high-quality delivery. Strong English skills and international remote collaboration are essential.

Competenze

• Be based in Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, or Mexico.
• Strong level of English, written and spoken.
• 4+ years of backend-heavy software development experience with Java and Python, with extensive usage of Agentic AI.
• Solid experience in Java and Python, including working with data structures, relational databases, and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants (such as Cursor, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot) as part of a daily development workflow.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (especially GCP) and application infrastructure concepts — containers, caching, and distributed systems — is an asset.
• Experience working with Microservices
• Comfortable working independently on well-defined problems and seeing them through to completion.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to unit and functional testing.
• Experience building AI-driven applications, agentic products and features, working with LLMs, or using frameworks like LangChain or Google ADK: Hands-on production experience building, running, and consuming MCP servers, including tool design, auth/OAuth, multi-tenant security, and deployment.

Mansioni

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support high-quality code for MCP servers and agents.
• Contribute to architecture and design discussions, evaluating scaling, reliability, and maintainability.
• Develop backend services in Python and Java, focusing on performance and data quality.
• Use AI coding tools to improve productivity and code quality in daily workflows.
• Participate in code reviews and provide/receive feedback to improve code quality.
• Identify and address technical debt and propose improvements.
• Break down tasks into manageable pieces and execute reliably.
• Collaborate with Product Management and Quality Assurance to refine requirements and ensure high quality.
• Share learnings and patterns with the team.
• Other relevant duties as required.

Conoscenze

Backend-heavy Java and Python

Agentic AI usage

AI coding assistants (Cursor, Claude)

Relational databases & SQL

Cloud platforms (GCP)

Microservices

Independent execution

Formazione

Computer Science or related degree

Strumenti

Cursor

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Descrizione del lavoro

Virtasant is seeking a fully remote backend-focused engineer to develop AI-powered features and agentic services. You will work primarily in Python for AI/Agent work and Java for integration with the client platform, stressing performance and data quality.

You will contribute to architecture discussions, perform testing, and collaborate with Product and QA to ensure high-quality delivery. Strong English skills and international remote collaboration are essential.