Senior AI Backend Engineer

ManpowerGroup; Durban North; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

ManpowerGroup in KwaZulu Natal seeks a Senior Product Engineer to design, build and scale backend systems and APIs for enterprise clients. You will own features end-to-end, from concept to production, and ensure reliability, security and performance.

You will work with Python or TypeScript (Node.js), design APIs, and deploy LLM-powered capabilities. You’ll mentor engineers and collaborate with product and client teams to translate needs into robust solutions.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of backend engineering experience in production systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python or TypeScript (Node.js).
• Experience designing APIs and integrating third-party systems.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL or similar relational databases and data modelling.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, logging and monitoring.
• Proven experience deploying LLM-powered features into production.
• Experience with queues and event-driven architectures.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentoring or leading junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable backend systems, APIs and third‑party integrations.
• Develop and optimise AI-powered applications and agent orchestration systems.
• Take ownership of features from design through deployment, monitoring and improvement.
• Ensure system reliability, performance, security and uptime across production.
• Scope technical requirements with enterprise clients and support proofs-of-concept.
• Translate client needs into practical technical solutions and communicate decisions clearly.
• Monitor deployed AI agents, evaluate performance and report outcomes.
• Mentor junior implementation engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with internal teams to feed client insights into product development.

Skills

Backend engineering

API design

Python

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Tools

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

CI/CD pipelines

Logging/Monitoring

LLM deployment tooling

Job description

ManpowerGroup in KwaZulu Natal seeks a Senior Product Engineer to design, build and scale backend systems and APIs for enterprise clients. You will own features end-to-end, from concept to production, and ensure reliability, security and performance.

You will work with Python or TypeScript (Node.js), design APIs, and deploy LLM-powered capabilities. You’ll mentor engineers and collaborate with product and client teams to translate needs into robust solutions.