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About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (AI Backend) to join our Apollo team. This role will focus on building and maintaining high-performance backend systems, integrating with AI-driven components, and managing infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code. The ideal candidate is a strong Python developer with experience working in cloud environments and a passion for building scalable, efficient systems.
Day to Day:
- Develop and enhance backend features, ensuring system reliability and scalability.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define requirements and improve system performance.
- Manage infrastructure using Terraform and other infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Work closely with Git-based workflows, including code reviews and contributions.
- Key Projects:
- Integrating with LLM Agents and building features around them.
- Hosting and optimizing ML models to serve millions of requests per day.
- Processing and managing large-scale data efficiently, ensuring low-latency client access.
What you bring to the table:
- 4+ years of experience in software engineering or product engineering.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering or a related quantitative field
- Strong proficiency in Python for backend development.
- Experience with creating and evaluating AI Agents, using LLMs
- Background in Machine Learning and deploying ML models in production.
- Knowledge of AWS cloud services.
- Git-based workflows for development, including pull requests and code reviews.
It would be great if you also had:
- Experience with Databricks for large-scale data processing.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure management.
- Experience working with Linux, containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.), and cloud environments.
- Familiarity with GitHub Actions for CI/CD automation.
Aura is committed to offering a generous package to support our employees in all aspects of their life in and out of work. Our packages offer competitive pay, generous health and wellness benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave and much more! Pay range for this position is $172,000-245,000, but may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location.
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