Senior Backend Consultant (Python&Java) with AI/ML skills 1

GFT Technologies SEOn-siteFull-timeSenior, 5–8 yearsListed 1 week ago

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About this role

Type of contract: B2B contract

Salary range: 125-160 PLN/H

What will you do?

You will build production-grade AI and GenAI solutions using Python, contributing to a large-scale enterprise technology transformation. You will work on LLM-based capabilities, RAG solutions, agentic workflows and integrations with an existing Java-based ecosystem while ensuring high standards of security, testing, governance and operational resilience.

Your tasks

- Design and develop production-grade AI and GenAI solutions in Python

- Build and integrate LLM-based applications, RAG pipelines and agentic workflows

- Develop secure APIs, microservices and integration components

- Integrate Python-based solutions with existing Java services and enterprise platforms

- Evaluate and validate AI-generated outputs using measurable quality criteria

- Apply human-in-the-loop controls, traceability and auditability

- Contribute to technical design and architecture decisions

- Develop unit, integration, contract and automated evaluation tests

- Follow secure coding standards and AI governance requirements

- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, quality gates and automated security checks

- Implement logging, monitoring, metrics and tracing

- Identify and resolve technical risks, dependencies and delivery blockers

- Support releases, production readiness and incident response

- Collaborate with architects, Tech Leads, QA, platform and operations teams

- Contribute to engineering standards and continuous improvement

Requirements

- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience in Python and Java

- Hands-on experience building AI and GenAI solutions

- Practical knowledge of LLM capabilities, limitations and safe usage patterns

- Experience designing and implementing RAG solutions

- Experience with agentic or tool-using AI workflows

- Experience with prompt engineering, evaluation and validation approaches

- Knowledge of AI governance, security, traceability and auditability

- Experience developing microservices and APIs

- Previous commercial experience with Java and Java-based enterprise systems

- Ability to understand, review and occasionally modify Java code

- Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or Oracle

- Knowledge of schema design, transactional integrity and performance optimization

- Strong unit, integration and contract testing practices

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and quality gates

- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred)

- Knowledge of REST, messaging and event-driven integration patterns

- Experience making pragmatic technical decisions in complex enterprise environments

- Strong understanding of secure software development and operational resilience

- Openness to work hybrid from our client's office (Kraków) 6-8 days a month

Nice to have

- Previous strong hands-on Java and Spring Boot development experience

- Experience delivering solutions in regulated financial services

- Experience with Kubernetes, containers and service mesh technologies

- Knowledge of modern observability tooling

- Experience with performance engineering and resilience testing

- Experience with prompt and model version management

- Experience establishing AI-enabled SDLC practices

- Experience measuring the quality and productivity of AI-assisted development