Backend Engineer, LLM

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Singapore.

📋 Description

• Create and sustain comprehensive product features encompassing frontend, backend, and AI/LLM elements.

• Design user interfaces for internal tools, dashboards, AI assistants, automation workflows, and productivity systems.

• Develop backend services, APIs, data pipelines, task workflows, and integrate with both internal and external systems.

• Incorporate LLM/AI capabilities into real-world applications, including intelligent assistants, RAG workflows, AI agents, automation tools, classification, summarization, and issue analysis.

• Utilize AI coding tools to enhance development efficiency, code quality, testing, and debugging.

• Collaborate with product, operations, support, engineering, security, and infrastructure teams to comprehend user requirements and provide effective solutions.

• Engage in product iterations based on user feedback, usage metrics, and business impact.

• Produce clean, maintainable code and contribute to documentation, testing, and best engineering practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related discipline.

• Strong programming fundamentals with an aptitude for quickly learning new technologies.

• Practical experience with at least one frontend framework, such as React, Vue, Angular, or similar.

• Practical experience with at least one backend language or framework, such as Python, Go, Java, Node.js, FastAPI, Spring Boot, Express, or similar.

• Basic knowledge of frontend engineering, including component design, state management, API integration, UI debugging, and browser fundamentals.

• Basic knowledge of backend engineering, covering API design, databases, authentication, asynchronous jobs, logging, monitoring, and service reliability.

• Direct experience with LLM/AI applications, such as:

• LLM API integration

• Prompt engineering

• RAG

• AI agents

• Tool/function calling

• Workflow automation

• Text classification / summarization / extraction

• LLM output evaluation

• Comfortable utilizing AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cline, OpenCode, or similar tools in everyday development.

• Strong sense of ownership, effective communication skills, and a readiness to tackle ambiguous challenges.

• Capacity to deliver practical solutions while considering both engineering quality and user experience.

• Nice to Have

• Experience in developing AI-powered products, internal tools, dashboards, workflow automation systems, or data-driven applications.

• Familiarity with LLM/Agent/RAG frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Dify, AutoGen, CrewAI, OpenAI API, Anthropic API, Hugging Face, or similar.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and comprehensive company benefits.

• Work-from-home flexibility (the arrangement may vary based on the nature of the business team's work).

• Opportunities for professional growth and ongoing learning.