Senior Backend Engineer: LLM-Powered APIs & Orchestration

ManpowerGroup Malta; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

ManpowerGroup Malta seeks an experienced backend engineer to design, build and maintain scalable systems and APIs. You will develop AI-powered applications and agent orchestration, owning features end-to-end and ensuring reliability across production environments.

You will work with enterprise clients, translate needs into practical solutions, monitor AI agents and mentor junior engineers while shaping engineering best practices and product direction.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years’ experience in backend engineering and production systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python or TypeScript (Node.js).
• Experience designing APIs and integrating third-party systems.
• Good knowledge of PostgreSQL and data modelling.
• Experience with cloud infra, CI/CD, logging and monitoring.
• Experience deploying LLM-powered features into production.
• Experience with queues and event-driven architecture.
• Ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• 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 design through deployment, monitoring and improvement.
• Ensure reliability, performance, security and uptime across production environments.
• Work with enterprise clients to scope requirements and support proofs-of-concept.
• Translate client needs into practical technical solutions and explain decisions clearly.
• Monitor deployed AI agents, evaluate performance and report business value.
• Mentor junior implementation engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with internal teams to feed client insights into product development.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python/TypeScript

APIs design

PostgreSQL

Cloud & CI/CD

LLM features

Event-driven

Mentoring

Stakeholder comms

Job description

ManpowerGroup Malta seeks an experienced backend engineer to design, build and maintain scalable systems and APIs. You will develop AI-powered applications and agent orchestration, owning features end-to-end and ensuring reliability across production environments.

You will work with enterprise clients, translate needs into practical solutions, monitor AI agents and mentor junior engineers while shaping engineering best practices and product direction.