Senior Backend AI Engineer: APIs, Orchestration & Scale

ManpowerGroup Malta; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

ManpowerGroup Malta is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design, build and maintain scalable systems and APIs, with a focus on AI-powered applications and enterprise integrations. You will own features from design to deployment, ensuring reliability and security across production environments.

You will collaborate with clients, translate requirements into technical solutions, and mentor junior engineers while shaping engineering best practices and product development feedback.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend engineering building production systems.
• Programming in Python or TypeScript (Node.js).
• Designing APIs and integrating third‑party systems.
• PostgreSQL and data modelling knowledge.
• Cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, logging and monitoring.
• Experience deploying LLM-powered features to production.
• Queues and event-driven architecture experience.
• Mentoring or leading junior engineers.
• Able to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

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 initial design through to deployment, monitoring and ongoing improvement.
• Ensure system reliability, performance, security and uptime across production environments.
• Work with enterprise clients to scope technical requirements, define success criteria and support proof-of-concept projects.
• Translate client needs into practical technical solutions and communicate architectural decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Monitor deployed AI agents, evaluate their performance and report on business value and outcomes.
• Mentor junior implementation engineers and contribute to best practices across the engineering team.
• Collaborate with internal teams to feed client insights and technical learnings back into product development.

Skills

Python

TypeScript(Node.js)

APIs design

PostgreSQL

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

LLM in production

Event-driven

Mentoring

Stakeholder comms

Job description

ManpowerGroup Malta is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design, build and maintain scalable systems and APIs, with a focus on AI-powered applications and enterprise integrations. You will own features from design to deployment, ensuring reliability and security across production environments.

You will collaborate with clients, translate requirements into technical solutions, and mentor junior engineers while shaping engineering best practices and product development feedback.