Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, Applied AI
Core
Building AI-driven products and infrastructure for a travel agency platform, specifically an AI co-pilot for travel advisors.
Role type
Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (Applied AI)
Builds
AI co-pilot (Via), MCP tools, agent orchestration layer, and observability systems for a travel advisor platform.
Domain
Travel technology / Applied AI
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Python, Django/Flask, API design, distributed systems, relational databases, ORMs, non-deterministic system reliability, performance optimization.
Preferred skills
MCP tools, agentic loops, structured outputs, streaming (SSE), prompt design, retrieval, evals, LLM provider SDKs, async task infrastructure, AWS, Kubernetes.
Technologies
Python, Django, Flask, Celery, RabbitMQ, AWS, Kubernetes, Anthropic, OpenAI.
Responsibilities
Define and prioritize Applied AI roadmap; design and build MCP tooling; build and harden agent orchestration; improve reliability of non-deterministic systems via evals and tracing; focus on performance and latency; collaborate on end-to-end solutions; take features from 0 to 1.
Seniority
Senior/Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence