AI Backend Engineer

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🕒 July 3

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $140k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Parallel Partners

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1 - 10 employees

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

Fintech • B2B

Parallel Partners is a staffing firm specializing in the recruitment of information technology personnel for direct hire positions within the financial services and trading industries. Established in 1995 and headquartered in Chicago, they cater to clients such as international hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, investment banks, online brokerages, and trading software product vendors. Acquired by Next Step Systems in 2014, Parallel Partners focuses on placing high-frequency trading systems and algorithmic trading specialists, as well as providing expertise in financial engineering and risk management.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience in production systems. • 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical insurance • Dental • Vision • Savings Plan Options • PTO