Backend Engineer - Agentic AI

### **About Virtasant**

Virtasant is a global technology services company with a network of over 4,000 technology professionals across 130+ countries. We specialize in cloud architecture, infrastructure, migration, and optimization, helping enterprises scale efficiently while maintaining cost control.

Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies to fast-growing startups, relying on us to build high-performance infrastructure, optimize cloud environments, and enable continuous delivery at scale.

### **About the role**

Our client develops a powerful AI-powered training and communication SaaS platform that gives frontline workers the knowledge they’re missing to drive measurable business performance.

You will be a **fully remote** , hands-on contributor on our client's Development Team, building features and products primarily across **Agentic AI and backend services** , with occasional contributions to frontend user interfaces when needed. This role takes clear ownership of well-defined problems and delivers high-quality solutions with confidence and independence. Working closely with peers across the Development Team, you will contribute to technical discussions, keep pace with a fast-moving codebase, and bring genuine care for the craft to everything you build.

### **What You’ll Do**

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support high-quality code

• Contribute to architecture and design discussions, and help evaluate trade-offs around scaling, reliability, and maintainability.
• Develop backend services in **Python (for AI and Agent work)** and Java (for integrating with our client's core platform), with attention to performance and data quality.
• Use AI coding tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as part of your daily workflow to improve productivity and code quality.
• Participate in code reviews, giving and receiving feedback that improves the quality and consistency of the codebase.
• Identify and flag technical debt, and contribute ideas for how to address it.
• Break down development tasks into clear, manageable pieces and execute them reliably.
• Collaborate with Product Management and Quality Assurance to refine requirements and ensure your work meets a high bar for quality.
• Share what you're learning — whether that's a new pattern, a tool, or a better way of doing something — with the people around you.
• Other relevant duties as required.

### **What We’re Looking For**

#### **Must-Have Experience**

• Be based in Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, or Mexico.
• Strong level of English, written and spoken.
• **4+ years** of **backend-heavy** software development experience with Java and Python, with extensive **usage of Agentic AI.**
• Solid experience in **Java and Python** , including working with **data structures, relational databases, and SQL.**
• Hands-on experience with **AI coding assistants (such as Cursor, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot)** as part of a **daily development workflow.**
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (especially GCP) and application infrastructure concepts — containers, caching, and distributed systems — is an asset.
• Experience working with Microservices
• **Comfortable working independently on well-defined problems** and seeing them through to completion.
• Strong attention to detail and a **commitment to unit and functional testing.**
• **Experience building AI-driven applications, agentic products and features, working with LLMs, or using frameworks like

LangChain or Google ADK

**

• Computer Science, Engineering, or similar technical aptitude gained through post-secondary education, hands-on experience, or both.

#### **Nice-to-haves**

• Experience with **React and TypeScript** ; familiarity with **JavaScript design patterns** and **single-page apps.**

### **Our recruitment process**

• Recruiter interview (30 min)
• Tech interview (30 min)
• Client interview - Hiring manager interview (1 hour)

Client interview - Technical interview

design-focused (1h 15min)

Client interview - Technical interview

coding-focused (1 hour)

• Client interview - Executive interview (30 min)

We strive to move efficiently from step to step to make the recruitment process as fast as possible.

### **What we offer**

• Totally remote, full-time (40h/week)
• Work hours - 8 hours a day, East Coast office hours
• Independent contractor agreement
• Payment in USD, biweekly or monthly - your choice