Senior Backend Engineer, Python – Agent Developer: Flow Components

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

📋 Description

• Develop, deliver, and maintain secure, thoroughly tested, and high-performance Flow Registry features within the Duo Workflow Service and the GitLab monolith backend.

• Collaborate with Product Management, User Experience, frontend and backend teams, as well as artificial intelligence experts, to refine requirements and implement iterative product enhancements.

• Design, implement, and review GraphQL and REST application programming interfaces, associated backend logic, and establish clear contracts with frontend clients.

• Enhance automated testing using RSpec and other frameworks to boost quality, reliability, and developer feedback mechanisms.

• Share standards, patterns, and insights with fellow engineers to facilitate responsible artificial intelligence integration and evidence-based engineering practices.

• Engage in Tier 2 on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, contribute to root cause analysis, and enhance observability and resilience.

• Monitor the competitive landscape to ensure GitLab's Flow Registry primitives and features remain competitive within the agentic platform market.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience in building and maintaining production Python applications utilizing LangChain and LangGraph, including background jobs, application programming interfaces, and data models.

• Proven experience in designing and deploying artificial intelligence-powered backend features and integrations, with a sound understanding of large language model limitations and responsible production practices.

• Proficiency in designing or enhancing REST and GraphQL application programming interfaces, focusing on scalability, maintainability, and backward compatibility.

• Strong SQL capabilities and knowledge of relational databases like PostgreSQL, including efficient queries and data modeling.

• Comfort in navigating a mature codebase across the stack and addressing performance bottlenecks at the application level and, when necessary, at the infrastructure level.

• Familiarity with JavaScript and Vue frontend development, along with an understanding of user experience principles.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience in drafting technical proposals and documentation, as well as collaborating in a remote, asynchronous, cross-functional environment.

• Willingness to learn and apply transferable skills from related technologies or domains.

🏝️ Benefits

• Benefits designed to support your health, finances, and overall well-being.

• Flexible Paid Time Off.

• Team Member Resource Groups.

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Growth and Development Fund.

• Parental Leave.