Senior Backend / Platform Engineer (AI Infrastructure)

Gramian Consultancy is a boutique consultancy specializing in IT professional services and engineering talent solutions. Gramian Consultancy brings together the perspective of a software engineer, the knowledge of a technical recruiter, and the vision of a business builder. This unique experience is their advantage in delivering services in recruiting, staff augmentation, and outsourcing.

• 5–10 years of professional backend, platform, or software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on development experience with Python and/or Node.js.
• Proven experience building scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-based applications.
• Strong experience designing RESTful or GraphQL APIs and microservices.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise authentication, authorization, and RBAC.
• Professional experience integrating applications with cloud-hosted services, APIs, and data platforms.
• Strong development practices including Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and code review.
• Fluent professional English.

• Design and build highly scalable, resilient, and secure microservices and backend APIs.
• Develop RESTful and GraphQL services for production-grade applications.
• Integrate business databases, third-party services, and legacy internal platforms with AI systems.
• Optimize backend latency, throughput, and resource allocation for real-time AI workloads.
• Implement enterprise-grade authentication, authorization, RBAC, and rate limiting.
• Build secure service-to-service integrations across cloud environments.
• Establish clean coding standards and maintain strong engineering quality.
• Write comprehensive integration tests and participate in code reviews.
• Collaborate with AI engineers to deploy models and services in unified containerized environments.
• Apply Git, CI/CD, testing, and cloud engineering best practices throughout delivery.

Contractor assignment from October 2026 to July 2027, with potential extension. The position requires candidates to be based in Europe, preferably Central and Eastern Europe; remote work initially with potential future hybrid work in Prague. Fluent English is required.