AI Backend Engineer, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Required, Work From Home

Summary

Parallel Partners is seeking an AI Backend Engineer to join a global, fully remote engineering team. The role focuses on building and operating scalable backend systems for AI-powered insurance workflows, designing orchestration and inference pipelines, optimizing performance and cost, and ensuring reliability across distributed AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate backend systems that serve AI-powered insurance workflows in production
• Design and implement AI orchestration layers that connect models, APIs, workflows, and business logic
• Build inference pipelines for LLM-based and AI-assisted automation systems
• Optimize latency, throughput, and cost across AI services (caching, batching, streaming, routing)
• Design stable service boundaries between backend systems, ML components, and product APIs
• Implement observability: logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and incident response workflows
• Debug production issues across distributed AI systems and resolve root causes
• Collaborate closely with frontend, product, operations, and ML teams to ship end-to-end features
• Continuously improve system reliability, scalability, and performance

Skills

• Strong backend engineering experience in production systems
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) experience required
• Experience building or operating high-throughput, low-latency services
• Familiarity with AI Systems (LLMs, Embeddings, or AI Workflows)
• Experience with distributed systems and production debugging
• Strong understanding of APIs, data flows, and system design principles
• Experience with observability tools (logging, monitoring, tracing)
• Strong ownership mindset and bias toward shipping
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, globally distributed teams
• Tech Stack:  Anthropic, Claude, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Distributed Systems Tooling, Docker, Kubernetes, LLM APIs, Node.js, NoSQL, Observability Tools, OpenAI, Open-Source Models, Python, SQL

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Strong backend engineering experience in production systems
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) experience required
• Experience building or operating high-throughput, low-latency services
• Familiarity with AI Systems (LLMs, Embeddings, or AI Workflows)
• Experience with distributed systems and production debugging
• Strong understanding of APIs, data flows, and system design principles
• Experience with observability tools (logging, monitoring, tracing)
• Strong ownership mindset and bias toward shipping
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, globally distributed teams
• Tech Stack:  Anthropic, Claude, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Distributed Systems Tooling, Docker, Kubernetes, LLM APIs, Node.js, NoSQL, Observability Tools, OpenAI, Open-Source Models, Python, SQL

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Savings Plan Options
• PTO
• Fully remote position
• 100% Remote