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Senior Software Engineer
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About this role
Zeroto1 is looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Applied AI to build production-grade AI systems and backend platform capabilities. You'll work across backend services, enterprise data and context, AI agents, workflow orchestration, integrations, evaluation, and production operations.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build scalable Python services and APIs for AI workflows, context resolution, orchestration, integrations, evaluation, tracing, and audit.
- Build enterprise integrations with databases, APIs, documents, events, files, webhooks, and MCP.
- Develop reliable asynchronous workflows using queues, events, and state machines with retries, idempotency, timeouts, and failure recovery.
- Build secure, tenant-aware systems with permissions, provenance, lineage, auditability, and data governance.
- Integrate LLMs and AI tools with structured outputs, validation, guardrails, fallbacks, tracing, and regression evaluation.
- Own testing, releases, migrations, observability, and production operations.
- Contribute to frontend/full-stack development when required.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production software.
- Strong expertise in Python, API development, relational databases, transactions, migrations, testing, and asynchronous workloads.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, queues/event systems, background jobs, caching, and concurrency.
- Experience integrating enterprise/third-party systems, authentication, permissions, webhooks, rate limits, and failure recovery.
- Hands-on cloud/platform experience with Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, logging, metrics, tracing, and deployment automation.
- Practical experience building LLM/AI systems beyond prompt experimentation, including RAG/retrieval, tool use, structured outputs, evaluation, and guardrails.
- Good to Have: FastAPI, Pydantic, Redis, Kafka/queues, workflow engines, vector databases, MCP, LangChain/Langflow, TypeScript, React, Docker, Kubernetes. Join Zeroto1 and build the backend and AI infrastructure powering reliable, secure, enterprise-grade AI applications.
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Skills
Large Language Models (LLMs)PythonLangchainAgentic AiDockerKubernetesRetrieval Augmented GenerationPostgresqlretrievalCi/CdFastAPIArtificial Intelligence