Backend Engineer (Python - AI Systems)

COMPANY OVERVIEW The client is an innovative AI Fintech company on a mission to transform how people work by creating proactive digital assistants that do more than just respond to prompts. By combining AI reasoning, long-term context, and automation, they help users complete everyday tasks faster, smarter, and with less manual effort. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES ·        Develop and maintain production-grade backend systems supporting AI-powered applications. ·        Design and optimize inference pipelines, model orchestration frameworks, and service architectures. ·        Own operational excellence across monitoring, logging, alerting, troubleshooting, and incident management. ·        Improve system performance through optimization of inference workloads, caching strategies, batching mechanisms, and streaming architectures. ·        Build robust, scalable APIs that enable seamless integration between frontend applications, machine learning systems, and external services. ·        Continuously enhance platform reliability, scalability, and observability based on production feedback and usage patterns. JOB REQUIREMENTS ·        Strong backend engineering experience building and supporting production-grade applications. ·        Proven experience designing and operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems. ·        Familiarity with AI/ML serving architectures, including Large Language Models (LLMs), embeddings, and multimodal AI systems. ·        Experience debugging, monitoring, and optimizing complex distributed systems under production workloads. ·        Strong understanding of API design, system architecture, and cloud-native development practices. ·        Demonstrated ownership mindset with the ability to independently drive projects from design through deployment and optimization. ·        Comfortable working in fast-paced environments and making pragmatic engineering decisions. TECHNICAL SKILLS ·        Python ·        Node.js ·        PyTorch ·        OpenAI, Anthropic, and open-source LLMecosystems ·        SQL and NoSQL databases ·        Kubernetes ·        Docker Working Location: Singapore Syahirah Binte Ahmad Ja'afar (R22105331) JAC Recruitment Pte. Ltd. (90C3026)