Lead Python Backend Engineer

EPAM Systems is a global leader in AI transformation engineering and integrated consulting, serving Forbes Global 2000 companies and startups. The team develops an Enterprise Agent Development Platform, a cloud-native ecosystem for defining, orchestrating, deploying, and observing AI agents at scale using LangGraph, Strands Agents, and AWS AgentCore Runtime.

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience with AI/ML systems
• Hands-on experience integrating agent memory in production AI projects, including AWS AgentCore Memory API functions
• Expertise in Python SDK development
• Skills in API integration for stateful services
• Proficiency in session management and context persistence
• English proficiency at B2 level or higher

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with AWS AgentCore Memory SDK usage
• Knowledge of LangChain memory integration
• Background in agent framework development (LangGraph, Crew)
• Understanding of conversational AI context handling

• Integrate AgentCore Memory into platform agent templates and helper libraries
• Implement write-on-turn functionality to store session events
• Implement retrieve-on-turn functionality to fetch relevant context
• Design and build memory namespace architecture for per-agent isolation and per-user scoping
• Develop Python helper libraries to support memory-enabled agents across the platform
• Enable memory activation through configuration rather than custom code in agent templates
• Work with AWS AgentCore Memory API to create, query, update, and delete memory records
• Build and maintain API integrations for stateful services
• Manage session persistence and context continuity across agent interactions

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