Backend Engineer, AI Integrations

Brazil (Remote). Posted a month ago

The role

You will lead engineering on AI products to ship production ready generative AI features. You will architect the stack, write clean code, integrate LLM APIs, and own features end-to-end.

What you will do

Lead AI-powered product work for a startup
Design and ship customer-facing AI experiences
Improve internal AI tooling and delivery practices
Help grow the team and interview future candidates
Mentor other engineers

Required qualifications

5+ years of experience in software engineering, including leading projects or people
Backend experience: TypeScript or Python
Experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g. Azure, GCP, AWS)
Experience with databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc)
Hands-on experience building with modern LLM APIs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic)
Experience with agentic products and prompt engineering
Experience with the retrieval layer (e.g. RAG, embeddings, vector search)
Experience writing and evaluating Claude Skills
Know how to choose the right LLM for the right task, balancing quality, cost, and other factors
Experience creating and integrating with MCP servers and converting API endpoints into tools
Growth mindset: able to quickly learn new languages, frameworks, and more
Strong written + verbal communication skills in English

Nice to have

Experience with system administration, internal workspaces, and IT infra (e.g. Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Sharepoint)
Experience connecting Cowork / ChatGPT Work to internal data sources
Experience with integrating Microsoft 365 with AI systems
Experience building data ingestion pipelines
Experience in the financial sector
Consulting, product studio, or multi-client delivery experience
Things you've built that you'd like to show us — work projects, open source, or side projects

Benefits

Support work-life balance

About the company

Sierra Studio is a product development company with a focus on AI. They create a wide variety of products for customers, from LLM-powered web/mobile apps to cutting-edge work at the frontier of AI.