Backend Software Engineer

dentsu • USA - Remote - Georgia, MD

3d • Remote

About The Position

We are a leading global media agency, shaping the future of content, advertising, and audience engagement across platforms. Our product organization powers innovative solutions for clients worldwide, leveraging data, technology, and creativity. As a backend software engineer, you will design, build, and deploy AI systems capabilities that drive business value and enhance our global products. You will work cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to design and deliver AI systems for content personalization, audience analytics, creative optimization, and more.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• 2-4 years experience designing, maintaining, and testing enterprise grade RestAPIs.
• Expert Python skills, deep experience with concurrent systems (asyncio, tornado, celery etc).
• Demonstrated production experience complex long running processes that present and collect data.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Prefect, Airflow, Dagster).
• Experience with data persistence. Redis, Postgres, NoSQL, MongoDB, etc.
• Demonstrated production experience with monitoring enterprise systems.
• Ability to architect systems that are maintainable and extendable.
• Balancing over engineering while preparing for future requests.
• Familiarity with LLMs – their APIs, performance challenges, and how to mitigate those (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, etc.).
• Proficiency with version tracking.
• Knowledge of containerization, DevOps tools, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and test production grade Python APIs for media products.
• Support data pipelines, background jobs, and distributed systems that interact with AI models.
• Work with technical stakeholders to design scalable systems for easy development, deployment, and monitoring of systems.
• Create implementation plans teams can work against to achieve product goals.
• Design and robust systems for long running processes. Databases, caching, retry logic, fall back behavior, etc.
• Ensure errors are routed for proper triaging.
• Design/maintain high quality automated tests and manual stress/quality testing frameworks for AI systems.
• Consider data governance and cyber security practices.
• Ensuring fairness, transparency, and compliance with regulations.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 15 paid holidays per year
• Paid sick and safe leave
• Paid parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level