Senior AI Engineer
About the role
As a Senior AI Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing core backend services for an agentic AI platform that integrates with business systems like ERPs, CRMs, and HRIS. The role involves leading the development of backend services and APIs, building AI agents and workflows, ensuring security and multi-tenancy, and developing LLM-powered features. You will also uphold engineering standards, conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and manage the operational health of your services. The position requires significant experience in backend software engineering, particularly with Python, Azure, distributed systems, and production use of LLM APIs. The company offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to own core parts of the platform at an early stage.
Must have
- 6+ years of professional software engineering, mostly backend, including 2+ years owning the design of a production system
- Strong Python, including asynchronous programming, and experience building REST APIs; FastAPI experience preferred
- Data validation using Pydantic and JSON Schema
- Azure Functions and Azure identity and security, including Entra ID, managed identities and Key Vault
- Azure SQL or SQL Server, with strong relational data modelling
- Distributed systems experience, including concurrency, idempotency, safe retries and partial-failure recovery
- Production experience with LLM APIs such as Azure OpenAI, including tool calling, structured outputs and evaluation of model behaviour
- Automated testing with pytest, Git and CI/CD using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or equivalent
- Production logging and monitoring using Application Insights or equivalent
Nice to have
- Azure Durable Functions or another workflow or orchestration engine
- Microsoft Bot Framework, Microsoft Graph and Teams integrations
- Azure Document Intelligence and Azure Storage
- Experience connecting AI agents to systems through MCP servers
- ERP experience, such as Business Central, SAP or NetSuite
- React and TypeScript
Technologies
- Agentic AI
- Azure
- Azure DevOps
- Azure Functions
- CI/CD
- Data Modeling
- Microsoft Entra ID
- ERP
- FastAPI
- Git
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- JSON
- LLM
- MCP
- NetSuite
- OpenAI
- pytest
- Python
- React
- REST
- SAP
- SQL
- SQL Server
- Test Automation
- TypeScript
- Vault
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