Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Powered Platforms Lead

ManpowerGroup Malta; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

ManpowerGroup Malta is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs for AI-powered applications. You will own features end-to-end, monitor performance, and ensure reliability across production environments.

You will work with enterprise clients, translating complex requirements into technical solutions, and collaborate with internal teams to drive product improvements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in backend engineering, building and maintaining production systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python or TypeScript (Node.js).
• Proven experience designing APIs and integrating third-party systems.
• Good knowledge of PostgreSQL or similar relational databases, including data modelling and query optimisation.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, logging and monitoring.
• Demonstrated experience building and deploying LLM-powered features or applications into production.
• Experience working with queues and event-driven architecture.
• Ability to explain technical concepts and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Previous experience 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 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

Backend engineering

Python

TypeScript (Node.js)

API design

PostgreSQL

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

LLM-powered features

Event-driven architecture

Mentoring juniors

Tools

API design tooling

Job description

ManpowerGroup Malta is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs for AI-powered applications. You will own features end-to-end, monitor performance, and ensure reliability across production environments.

You will work with enterprise clients, translating complex requirements into technical solutions, and collaborate with internal teams to drive product improvements.