Application Developer

**Job Title: Application Developer

Location: Remote

Duration: 3-month contract

Job Description:** We are seeking a Senior Backend Software Developer to join our AI team team. This system uses LLMs, Python Fast API, and Document Extraction to do unstructured document processing for NER applications. You will contribute to both backend development, building new features, improving system reliability, and collaborating with a small agile team.

Ability to build an agent harness from scratch is a plus, along with ability to explain each component of an LLM and how it works.

Core Responsibilities Work with PostgreSQL for database operations, including schema design and query optimization

Integrate with Azure OpenAI and embedding models for LLM-powered features

Architect and design LLM evaluation, prompt optimization, drift detection

Write strong clean typed Python code that's production ready

Write unit and integration tests (pytest) with high coverage; participate in code reviews

Qualifications 5 years of professional software development experience

Strong proficiency in Python (3.10 ), FastAPI, and async/await patterns

Strong proficiency in PostgreSQL (schema design, query optimization, migrations)

Experience integrating with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI) and building AI-powered features

Experience with building test suites, golden data sets, and LLM evaluation

Some familiarity with LLM components such as tokenization, cache, etc.

Strong code quality practices — type annotations, linting, automated testing

Excellent communication skills; ability to work independently in a distributed team

Familiarity with Pydantic, dependency injection patterns, and repository-pattern architectures is a plus