Textlayer

Staff AI Architect

Textlayer

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$215,000 - CA$250,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Architect and maintain Python-based services using FastAPI for internal and customer-facing AI use cases
  • Build and scale secure, well-structured API endpoints that interface with LLMs, vector stores, and agentic tools
  • Implement orchestration logic and tool chaining for advanced agent workflows
  • Optimize service performance and latency across AI infrastructure layers
  • Collaborate with frontend, AI, and devops teams to ensure system-wide reliability and observability
  • Set up robust test coverage and CI pipelines for backend services
  • Contribute to our modular architecture for tool-based reasoning agents
  • Stay current with emerging trends in AI engineering, LLM integrations, and scalable backend systems

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer, building scalable backend systems in Python
  • Strong knowledge of Flask for building and scaling product grade APIs
  • Experience with LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g., LiteLLM) and integrating OpenAI or similar
  • Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, and RAG patterns
  • Experience building and maintaining infrastructure that integrates with frontends, CLIs, and external APIs
  • Comfortable with GitHub, Docker, and CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions)
  • Proficiency in writing robust, tested, and well-documented backend code
Benefits
  • Project Completion bonuses
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonFastAPIFlaskLLM orchestration frameworksOpenAIvector databasesembeddingsRAG patternsCI/CDbackend code
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingreliabilityobservability