Senior AI Platform Engineer – Backend & Orchestration

Jobtailor; Minnesota; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in the United States is seeking a senior backend engineer to own AI orchestration, backend services, and scalable cloud infrastructure for large‑scale AI workflows.

You will design and implement Python systems (FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS, Vercel), lead cross‑functional initiatives, mentor engineers, and partner with product and ML teams to deliver auditable, high‑performance solutions for enterprise AI workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
• 5–7+ years of full-stack development experience with scalable cloud-based applications, web services, APIs and AI-driven products.
• Deep Python expertise and production systems experience using FastAPI or similar frameworks.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Experience with AWS or major cloud provider; strong distributed systems background.
• Proven track record leading large, complex projects end‑to‑end: architecture, execution, rollout, and operation.
• Hands‑on experience integrating LLM APIs (OpenAI/Anthropic) into production applications.
• Experience with vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval pipelines.
• Experience with testing, reliability, and release practices for non-deterministic model-based systems.

Responsibilities

• Own backend and AI orchestration systems powering AI agents, conversations, workspaces, and knowledge bases.
• Define patterns for MCP servers, agent design, and scalable infrastructure.
• Shape platform integration across Thomson Reuters audit systems.
• Build and evolve systems operating over millions of documents and concurrent AI interactions.
• Lead multi-quarter initiatives across AI, product, and infrastructure.
• Mentor engineers on system design, code quality, and AI integration.
• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers, researchers, designers, and product managers.
• Architect and implement backend services using Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Vercel.
• Build AI orchestration with routing, tool calling, and multi-step workflows.
• Design high-throughput, low-latency AI workloads with caching and rate-limiting.
• Work with large-scale data, vector stores, indexing strategies.
• Establish SLOs, observability, and incident response for auditable AI systems.

Skills

Deep Python

FastAPI

AWS

Distributed systems

LLM integration

API design

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Equivalent experience

Tools

PostgreSQL

OpenAI API

Anthropic API

Vercel

Vector databases

Job description

Jobtailor in the United States is seeking a senior backend engineer to own AI orchestration, backend services, and scalable cloud infrastructure for large‑scale AI workflows.

You will design and implement Python systems (FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS, Vercel), lead cross‑functional initiatives, mentor engineers, and partner with product and ML teams to deliver auditable, high‑performance solutions for enterprise AI workloads.