Backend Software Engineer: Python (AI/ML)
Posted Today by Bayside Solutions
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Summary: The Backend Software Engineer role focuses on designing and implementing production-grade Python services for a distributed platform, with an emphasis on AI and machine learning applications. The position requires strong problem-solving skills and experience with microservices architecture, Kubernetes, and API design. Candidates will also engage in improving system reliability and performance while collaborating with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams. This is a W2 contract position based remotely in Austin, TX.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement production-grade Python services supporting a distributed platform
- Solve algorithmic and data-structure-driven problems with clarity and correctness
- Own API design, service boundaries, and inter-service communication
- Build and deploy microservices on Kubernetes
- Improve reliability, performance, and observability of existing systems
- Participate in on-call and support rotations, and contribute to platform stability
- Collaborate closely with SRE teams on deployments, releases, and operational tooling
- Contribute to onboarding, automation, and internal developer experience
Key Skills:
- Strong Python fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, async patterns, and error handling
- Ability to clarify requirements before coding and reason through multi-step problems
- Experience building distributed systems or backend platforms
- Hands-on experience with REST and gRPC APIs, microservices architecture, and Kubernetes-based deployments
- Solid understanding of service reliability, observability, including logs, metrics, and tracing, and production debugging and incident response
- Comfortable working in a high-ownership, low-handholding environment
Salary (Rate): £52.50 hourly
City: Austin
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Backend Software Engineer: Python (AI/ML)
W2 Contract
Pay Rate: $55 - $65 per hour
Location: Austin, TX - Remote Role
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design and implement production-grade Python services supporting a distributed platform
- Solve algorithmic and data-structure-driven problems with clarity and correctness
- Own API design, service boundaries, and inter-service communication
- Build and deploy microservices on Kubernetes
- Improve reliability, performance, and observability of existing systems
- Participate in on-call and support rotations, and contribute to platform stability
- Collaborate closely with SRE teams on deployments, releases, and operational tooling
- Contribute to onboarding, automation, and internal developer experience
Requirements and Qualifications:
- Strong Python fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, async patterns, and error handling
- Ability to clarify requirements before coding and reason through multi-step problems
- Experience building distributed systems or backend platforms.
- Hands-on experience with REST and gRPC APIs, microservices architecture, and Kubernetes-based deployments
- Solid understanding of service reliability, observability, including logs, metrics, and tracing, and production debugging and incident response
- Comfortable working in a high-ownership, low-handholding environment
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with AI platforms, LLMs, or agent orchestration
- Familiarity with automation bots or internal developer tooling
- Experience supporting large internal user bases or shared platforms
- Prior SRE or DevOps exposure
Bayside Solutions, Inc. is not able to sponsor any candidates at this time. Additionally, candidates for this position must qualify as a W2 candidate.
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