Software Development Engineer – AI, LLM Systems, Python Backend
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Software Development Engineer developing AI-powered applications with Python for Volga Partners. Building backend services and integrating LLM capabilities while ensuring system performance and reliability.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain backend services and internal tools in Python for AI-powered applications.
- Integrate LLM APIs into production workflows, including prompt handling, response processing, validation, and retries.
- Design and implement scalable REST APIs, async workflows, and background job systems.
- Maintain and enhance components of a multi-language codebase (C#/C++, Python, web technologies) where applicable.
- Work with structured and unstructured data to prepare inputs, transform outputs, and support downstream systems.
- Develop systems for prompt management, model routing, response validation, and failure handling.
- Debug complex issues across backend logic, API integrations, and distributed services.
- Monitor system performance using telemetry tools and proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks.
- Automate recurring workflows related to data processing, evaluation, and reporting.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn ambiguous product ideas into production-ready features.
- Contribute to architecture decisions around scalability, performance, and safe use of AI systems.
- Write clean, testable, and maintainable code while helping establish engineering best practices for AI systems.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 3+ years of professional experience in backend or systems engineering.
- Strong experience in Python development for production systems.
- Experience integrating LLM APIs or AI-driven services into real applications.
- Proven ability to work within large codebases and collaborative environments.














