Backend Engineer

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🌐 Brazil, Colombia, +2 more countries – Remote

🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote 🇨🇴 Colombia – Remote 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic – Remote 🇲🇽 Mexico – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Virtasant

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

🏢 Enterprise

🤝 B2B

Consulting • Enterprise • B2B

Virtasant is a cloud services and optimization company that helps businesses migrate to, manage, and build on public cloud platforms. They combine a proprietary automation platform with managed services and FinOps expertise to reduce cloud costs (claiming average savings of over 50%), support Cloud FinOps programs, and deliver outcome-based engagements rather than hourly or seat-based billing. Virtasant also provides enterprise AI guidance and partners with major cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) to deliver migration, optimization, and 24/7 managed operations.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support high-quality code • Build, run, and consume MCP servers, including tool design, auth/OAuth, multi-tenant security, and deployment • Build LLM agents with tool/function calling and multi-agent orchestration • Test and evaluate agent behaviour and implement observability in production • Contribute to architecture and design discussions and evaluate scaling, reliability, and maintainability trade-offs • Develop backend services in Python for AI and Agent work and Java for integration with the client's core platform • Use AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot in daily workflow • Participate in code reviews • Identify technical debt and contribute ideas to address it • Break development tasks into clear, manageable pieces and execute them reliably • Collaborate with Product Management and Quality Assurance to refine requirements and ensure quality • Share learning, patterns, tools, and improved practices with colleagues • Perform other relevant duties as required

🎯 Requirements

• Be based in Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, or Mexico • Strong level of English, written and spoken • 4+ years of backend-heavy software development experience with Java and Python, with extensive usage of Agentic AI • Solid experience in Java and Python, including working with data structures, relational databases, and SQL • Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants such as Cursor, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot as part of a daily development workflow • Familiarity with cloud platforms, especially GCP, and application infrastructure concepts including containers, caching, and distributed systems is an asset • Experience working with Microservices • Comfortable working independently on well-defined problems and seeing them through to completion • Strong attention to detail and commitment to unit and functional testing • Experience building AI-driven applications, agentic products and features, working with LLMs, or using frameworks like LangChain or Google ADK • Hands-on production experience building, running, and consuming MCP servers, including tool design, auth/OAuth, multi-tenant security, and deployment • Experience building LLM agents with tool/function calling and multi-agent orchestration, such as A2A or similar • Experience testing and evaluating agent behaviour, plus observability in production • Computer Science, Engineering, or similar technical aptitude gained through post-secondary education, hands-on experience, or both • Nice-to-have: experience with React and TypeScript; familiarity with JavaScript design patterns and single-page apps

🏖️ Benefits

• Totally remote, full-time (40h/week) • Work hours: 8 hours a day, East Coast office hours • Independent contractor agreement • Payment in USD, biweekly or monthly — your choice