Software Engineer | Remote

Summary: The Software Engineer role is a full-time hourly contract position focused on designing and optimizing distributed infrastructure for AI agents. The engineer will develop backend systems, integrate model-serving pipelines, and maintain agent runtime infrastructure. Responsibilities also include implementing monitoring and improving system performance. This position requires strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote work environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and optimize distributed infrastructure for training, deploying, and scaling AI agents
• Develop backend systems including services, APIs, and orchestration layers supporting agent lifecycles
• Integrate model-serving pipelines, agent reasoning loops, memory stores, and planning components into production systems
• Build and maintain agent runtime infrastructure including scheduling, state management, and inter-agent communication
• Implement monitoring, observability, and fault-tolerance for long-running distributed workflows
• Evaluate and improve system performance across compute, networking, storage, and inference layers
• Participate in regular synchronous collaboration sessions to review architecture and troubleshoot systems

Key Skills:

• Strong experience building large-scale distributed systems
• Strong experience designing production-grade backend services and APIs
• Proficiency in one or more systems or backend programming languages
• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure and containerization/orchestration tools
• Familiarity with agent frameworks, multi-agent architectures, or LLM inference pipelines
• Strong understanding of networking, data streaming, caching, and performance optimization
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills

Salary (Rate): £160.00/hr

City: undetermined

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT