Backend Software Engineer (Python)

dentsu • USA - Remote - Maryland, TX

4d • $136,000 - $190,075 • Remote

About The Position

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.
• Experience (2+ years) designing, maintaining, and testing enterprise grade RestAPIs.
• Expert coding skills (6+ years) with at least 2 years of python experience. Deep experience with concurrent systems (asyncio, tornado, celery etc).
• Demonstrated production experience complex long running processes that present and collect data
• Experience (2+ years) with data persistence. Redis, Postgres, NoSQL, MongoDB, etc.
• Demonstrated production experience monitoring enterprise systems.
• Proficiency with version tracking

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with LLMs – their APIs, performance challenges, and how to mitigate those (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, etc.)
• Ability to architect systems that are maintainable and extendable. Balancing over engineering while preparing for future requests.
• Knowledge of containerization, DevOps tools, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• API System Design: Architect, develop, and test production grade Python APIs for media products.
• Orchestration: Support data pipelines, background jobs, and distributed systems that interact with AI models.
• Collaboration: 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.
• Deployment & Scaling: Design and robust systems for long running processes. Databases, caching, retry logic, fall back behavior, etc. Ensure errors are routed for proper triaging
• Robust Testing: Design/maintain high quality automated tests and manual stress/quality testing frameworks for AI systems.
• Ethics & Compliance: 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, and
• Paid parental leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree