Tech Lead / Engineer - Backend & AI-Driven API Development

Tech Lead / Engineer Backend & AI-Driven API Development
Contract EST / CST Time Zone work Mode - Remote
Spec-based backend engineer building microservices and production AI-integrated solutions

Strong hands-on engineering building microservices with Python and
Node.js using AI to accelerate solutioning and development
Cloud-native, event-driven solutions using AWS Lambda, SQS, and SNS
Strong Apigee API Gateway experience: proxy development, policies, routing, OAuth/security, KVMs, API products, multi-environment deployments
Practical AI engineering: LLM integration, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, structured outputs deployed in production
Tool/API orchestration, intent routing, and deterministic backend integration
Agentic AI experience: workflow orchestration, tool calling, AI- assisted decision flows
In-depth knowledge of AI guardrails: PII/PHI protection, prompt- injection prevention, logging, monitoring, response validation
Ability to design and build secure, scalable, API-driven AI solutions end to end