Remote Senior Python Backend Engineer (AI & APIs)

Healing Strides Counseling; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Health coverage

Fully remote

Job summary

Healing Strides Counseling is seeking a Senior Python Developer to build backend applications, APIs, and AI-enabled software for our clients. You’ll own software from design through production, working on Python development, API design, application architecture, integrations, and cloud deployments.

You’ll also integrate LLMs, vector databases, and retrieval capabilities into production applications. You’ll work closely with product managers, engineers, QA, and other stakeholders to deliver

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development, primarily in Python, with strong backend, object-oriented, and application architecture fundamentals.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and building microservices, including secure authentication and authorization.
• Experience developing and deploying applications on AWS with CI/CD, monitoring, and logging in production.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain Python applications, backend services, RESTful APIs, and microservices.
• Own production software through its full lifecycle, from design through deployment and support.
• Integrate third-party services, databases, and LLMs, and implement secure authentication and authorization for APIs.
• Implement LLM integration patterns and retrieval capabilities, including RAG architectures and vector databases.
• Build data processing workflows, including JSON parsing, document transformation, data extraction, and structured output generation.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and logging, and troubleshoot production issues across applications, APIs, integrations, and infrastructure.
• Improve application performance, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with product, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders, and evaluate new technologies where they offer meaningful improvements.

Skills

Python

APIs

AWS

CI/CD

LLM integration

Debugging

Agile

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Vector databases

Retrieval patterns

REST APIs

Job description

Healing Strides Counseling is seeking a Senior Python Developer to build backend applications, APIs, and AI-enabled software for our clients. You’ll own software from design through production, working on Python development, API design, application architecture, integrations, and cloud deployments.

You’ll also integrate LLMs, vector databases, and retrieval capabilities into production applications. You’ll work closely with product managers, engineers, QA, and other stakeholders to deliver