Senior Backend Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Build high-scale, secure, multi-tenant backend services
• ▹Turn the real-time transcription engine into AI-powered workflows and assistants used by legal teams
• ▹Design cloud architecture
• ▹Lead initiatives and drive projects end-to-end
• ▹Integrate LLM/AI features into backend services

Requirements

• ▹7+ years of hands-on backend development experience in a high-scale production environment
• ▹Strong proficiency with Python, REST APIs and Cloud (for example AWS, GCP)
• ▹Strong experience designing and building distributed, cloud-native microservices
• ▹Experience with event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing
• ▹Solid understanding of system design, scalability, availability and performance optimization
• ▹Practical experience using AI-powered development tools (for example Cursor, Claude Code)
• ▹Ability to take ownership and work proactively and independently in a fast-moving environment
• ▹Good communication skills and teamwork
• ▹Full professional proficiency in English
• ▹Remote position based in Ukraine

Nice to have

• ▹Practical experience with AI infrastructure (RAG, agentic frameworks, Langfuse, LiteLLM)
• ▹Formal education in a relevant field (CS, Math, Electrical Engineering etc.)
• ▹Experience with large-scale SaaS solutions
• ▹Ability to integrate AI/LLM features into backend services (prompting, embeddings, RAG pipelines, fine-tuning)

Soft skills

About the company

Verbit's team of 250 professionals builds AI-driven solutions that turn speech into actionable intelligence for the legal, media and education markets, serving more than 3,000 customers including top law firms, universities, enterprises and media organizations.