Sr Backend Engineer (Remote, Mexico)

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At Varicent were driven by the belief that great people power great companies. As our Senior Software Developer GenAI youll contribute to building and scaling production-grade AI systems that directly impact how our customers use and experience our products.

Youll contribute to the delivery of GenAI-powered features collaborate closely with technical leads and play a key role in maintaining technical quality reliability and scalability across a core product area. This role is ideal for a strong individual contributor who enjoys hands-on development learning new technologies and turning ideas into high-quality production systems.

Overview
Build and improve AI-enabled product features from prototype to production. Youll work within an end-to-end engineering team that owns build quality release readiness and ongoing improvements.

What Youll Do:
Build and maintain product features and supporting backend components including services integrations and internal workflows.
Write production-ready code and lightweight prototypes to validate ideas quickly.
Create automated tests and proactively fix issues to keep releases stable as engineers own quality without a dedicated QA function.
Support proof-of-concepts and experiments by setting up test cases reviewing results and improving areas where quality is weak.
Document systems and workflows so others can run maintain and extend what you build.

GenAI Competencies Youll Practice:
Translate business problems into clear AI tasks and implement end-to-end solutions with guidance from technical leads.
Prepare and maintain data and test cases used to measure output quality.
Apply common AI application patterns such as prompting using internal knowledge sources and calling external tools or APIs.
Measure quality using repeatable evaluation methods including automated checks and structured human review when required.
Contribute to production readiness through versioning monitoring basic performance and cost awareness and usage tracking.
Follow privacy security and compliance requirements in collaboration with Legal and Security teams.

How We Work:
We balance exploration with delivery test ideas quickly then productionize what works.
Done means quality goals are met followed by continuous improvement in accuracy cost and performance.
The team owns systems end-to-end including build release and operational reliability.

What You Bring:
4 years of overall software engineering experience with at least 2 years building and shipping production systems in product teams.
4 years of hands-on technical experience writing production-quality code.
Strong software engineering fundamentals including system design and scalable architecture.
Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript (or similar) building APIs services and data pipelines.
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS GCP or Azure) CI/CD pipelines automated testing and observability.
An experimentation mindset able to define metrics build evaluation frameworks and iterate quickly in ambiguous problem spaces.
Strong interest in learning and applying GenAI technologies in practical production environments.

Nice to Have:
Hands-on experience with GenAI/LLMs including prompt engineering retrieval/RAG embeddings tool or function calling fine-tuning or evaluation pipelines.
Familiarity with LLMOps practices such as experiment tracking version control for prompts or models and cost or latency optimization.
Experience with tools such as LangChain/LangGraph OpenAI Anthropic Azure OpenAI and vector databases like Pinecone FAISS or Milvus.
Contributions to open source technical blogs or conference talks.

Education:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Note:

• This role requires employees to work within Eastern Standard Time (EST)business hours.While we are open to candidates from outside the EST time zone please be prepared to adjust your working hours to align with this time zone. Flexibility will be essential to ensure seamless collaboration with the team and stakeholders.
• This position is fully remoteoffering you the flexibility to work from anywhere.We embrace a results-driven work culture focusing on performance and collaboration over location. As part of our team youll have the opportunity to build a work-life balance that suits you while staying connected with a diverse global team through virtual tools and regular online communication. Whether youre working from home a co-working space or another location of your choice were committed to supporting you with the resources and autonomy needed to succeed in a remote environment.

Benefits

• Market Leading Compensation Package.
• Wellness Programs to Support Health and Wellbeing.
• Working with the latest tools and technologies in a fast-paced environment.
• Remote Work Flexibility.
• Comprehensive Employee Insurance Coverage: Medical Dental Vision Life Insurance.
• Annual Time Off: Time off is provided in accordance with applicable legislative requirements.
• Global Connected Culture: Hubs in Romania UK US Canada.
• Dynamic Work Culture: Thrive in our innovative and multicultural environment.
• Grow with Us: Continuous development opportunities.