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Backend API Engineer

full-time Remote

AI overview

Build reliable APIs and secure real-time interfaces using FastAPI and Node.js, integrating with AWS services to enhance token streaming and event-driven workflows.
The Backend API Engineer will build the APIs and platform services that agents and the UI consume. They will also be responsible for performant, reliable, secure endpoints and real-time interfaces enabling token streaming, traces, and event-driven workflows.  Responsibilities
  • Build APIs using FastAPI / Node.js in AWS Lambda or ECS/EKS. 
  • Implement WebSocket support for streaming agent output. 
  • Manage routing, rate limits, token streaming, session management. 
  • Implement signed Bedrock calls through VPC endpoints. 
  • Partner with Front-End and Agent Engineers on schema contracts. 
  • Integrate EventBridge, SQS/SNS, SecretsManager. 
    • Qualifications
  • Production microservice experience. 
  • Bedrock API + token streaming experience. 
  • Secure API design competency. 
  • Strong performance optimization skills. 
  • Minimum - bachelor’s degree in computer science or software engineering.
  • Preferred – AWS Developer certifications.
    • AHEAD

    AHEAD partners with enterprise IT organizations to drive cloud adoption and acceleration.

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    $170,000 – $200,000 per year
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