AI Backend Engineer, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Required, Work From Home
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Parallel Partners
San Francisco, CA, US
Summary
You will build and operate backend systems that power AI-driven decisioning, automation, and orchestration. This involves designing inference pipelines, optimizing service performance, and ensuring the reliability of AI workflows in production.
Job Description
Job Description
AI Backend Engineer, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Required, Work From Home
We are looking for talented AI Backend Engineers to build systems that power AI-driven decisioning, automation, and orchestration across our platform. This role sits at the core of our AI stack, between models, backend systems, and real users, where latency, correctness, reliability, and cost directly impact production experience. This is a fully remote position where you will be part of a global engineering team working across multiple countries to build reliable, scalable AI systems. This position is 100% Remote.
MUST BE WILLING TO TAKE A 60 MINUTE CODING ASSESSMENT.
AI Backend Engineer Responsibilities:
- Build and operate backend systems that serve AI-powered insurance workflows in production.
- Design and implement AI orchestration layers that connect models, APIs, workflows, and business logic.
- Build inference pipelines for LLM-based and AI-assisted automation systems.
- Optimize latency, throughput, and cost across AI services (caching, batching, streaming, routing).
- Design stable service boundaries between backend systems, ML components, and product APIs.
- Implement observability: logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and incident response workflows.
- Debug production issues across distributed AI systems and resolve root causes.
- Collaborate closely with frontend, product, operations, and ML teams to ship end-to-end features.
- Continuously improve system reliability, scalability, and performance.
AI Backend Engineer Outcomes:
- AI backend systems run reliably at scale with low latency and high availability.
- AI workflows are stable, observable, and production-ready across multiple products.
- System performance improves continuously through real-world feedback and optimization.
- Production incidents are quickly detected, diagnosed, and resolved.
- AI capabilities are seamlessly integrated into global customer and internal workflows.
Qualifications
AI Backend Engineer Qualifications:
- Strong backend engineering experience in production systems.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) experience required.
- Experience building or operating high-throughput, low-latency services.
- Familiarity with AI Systems (LLMs, Embeddings, or AI Workflows).
- Experience with distributed systems and production debugging.
- Strong understanding of APIs, data flows, and system design principles.
- Experience with observability tools (logging, monitoring, tracing).
- Strong ownership mindset and bias toward shipping.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, globally distributed teams.
- Tech Stack: Anthropic, Claude, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Distributed Systems Tooling, Docker, Kubernetes, LLM APIs, Node.js, NoSQL, Observability Tools, OpenAI, Open-Source Models, Python, SQL.
Benefits include medical insurance, Dental, Vision, Savings Plan Options, PTO, etc.
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Parallel Partners / Next Step Systems specializes in the recruitment of information technology personnel for direct hire positions in the financial services and trading industries. Our clients include International Hedge Funds, Proprietary Trading Firms, Investment Banks, On-line Brokerages, Market Data Providers, Start-up Trading Firms, Trading Software Product Vendors and many others. Established in 1995, Parallel Partners is headquartered in Chicago and handles searches nationwide. We work with the Fortune 500 as well as emerging technology firms. 90% of our business is repeat business.
Next Step Systems Acquires Parallel Partners
Naperville, IL - April 9, 2014 - Next Step Systems announced today that it has acquired information technology staffing specialists, Parallel Partners in order to better serve its company clients and job seeker candidates.
Founded in 1995, Parallel Partners is a leading staffing firm successfully placing information technology professionals in full time permanent positions. Prior to the acquisition, Next Step Systems and Parallel Partners have had a long-term strategic partnership and have shared philosophies on recruiting practices. The acquisition will expand on Next Step Systems’ leadership in information technology recruiting, its key employee, candidate and client base, and its well-established technology resources.
About Next Step Systems
Next Step Systems is an information technology recruiting firm founded in 1995. Next Step Systems specializes in placing all levels of information technology talent in full time permanent positions across all industries throughout the U.S.
To reach Parallel Partners, please email [email protected] or call 630-428-0600 x14.
Founded
1995
Company size
2-10 employees
Industry
Information Technology & Services
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Naperville, IL
Parallel Partners / Next Step Systems specializes in the recruitment of information technology personnel for direct hire positions in the financial services and trading industries. Our clients include International Hedge Funds, Proprietary Trading Firms, Investment Banks, On-line Brokerages, Market Data Providers, Start-up Trading Firms, Trading Software Product Vendors and many others. Established in 1995, Parallel Partners is headquartered in Chicago and handles searches nationwide. We work with the Fortune 500 as well as emerging technology firms. 90% of our business is repeat business.
Next Step Systems Acquires Parallel Partners
Naperville, IL - April 9, 2014 - Next Step Systems announced today that it has acquired information technology staffing specialists, Parallel Partners in order to better serve its company clients and job seeker candidates.
Founded in 1995, Parallel Partners is a leading staffing firm successfully placing information technology professionals in full time permanent positions. Prior to the acquisition, Next Step Systems and Parallel Partners have had a long-term strategic partnership and have shared philosophies on recruiting practices. The acquisition will expand on Next Step Systems’ leadership in information technology recruiting, its key employee, candidate and client base, and its well-established technology resources.
About Next Step Systems
Next Step Systems is an information technology recruiting firm founded in 1995. Next Step Systems specializes in placing all levels of information technology talent in full time permanent positions across all industries throughout the U.S.
To reach Parallel Partners, please email [email protected] or call 630-428-0600 x14.
Founded
1995
Company size
2-10 employees
Industry
Information Technology & Services
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Naperville, IL