Python Engineer (AI/LLM)
1-year renewable contract in Singapore (hybrid) building scalable Python backend services, RESTful APIs, and AI/LLM-powered document ingestion and retrieval pipelines using PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis and Azure. Pays SGD 6,000-10,000/month plus AWS, hired via ScienTec Consulting.
- Compensation
- SGD 6K–SGD 10K / mo
- Location
- Central Region
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 1+ years
- Category
- Ai engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Minimum 4 years of backend software engineering experience in a production environment
- Strong proficiency in Python and frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask
- Experience designing RESTful APIs and integrating third-party services
- Knowledge of OAuth 2.0 and token-based authentication
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure
- Experience with production troubleshooting and operational support
- Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines and modern software-development workflows
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams
- Familiarity with document-processing pipelines (text extraction, chunking, embeddings, metadata management)
Nice to have
- Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript or Node.js
- Exposure to LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases or prompt engineering
Full description
Salary: SGD 6000 - 10000 per month, AWS
Working Hours: Monday – Thursday (8.30am – 6pm), Friday (8.30am – 5.30pm) (Hybrid working arrangement)
Working Location: Central
Salary Package: Up to $10,000 + AWS
Employment Type: Full Time Contract (1 year renewable with chances of conversion)
We are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design, develop and maintain scalable backend services, APIs and data-processing capabilities. You will work closely with product managers, engineers and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, secure and production-ready solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain scalable backend services and RESTful APIs using Python.
- Manage backend feature development across design, implementation, testing, deployment and production support.
- Build integrations with internal platforms, external systems and third-party services.
- Develop AI-powered backend capabilities, including document ingestion, retrieval and knowledge-processing services.
- Build and maintain reliable data-processing pipelines.
- Work with relational and non-relational databases to support scalable and resilient systems.
- Troubleshoot production issues and improve system reliability, observability and performance.
- Participate in code reviews and maintain best practices across testing, CI/CD, security and maintainability.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, UX and external partner teams.
- Contribute to improvements in platform architecture and developer experience.
Requirements
- Minimum 4 years of backend software engineering experience in a production environment.
- Strong proficiency in Python and frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask.
- Experience designing RESTful APIs and integrating third-party services.
- Knowledge of OAuth 2.0 and token-based authentication.
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.
- Experience with production troubleshooting and operational support.
- Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines and modern software-development workflows.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across different teams.
- Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript or Node.js would be advantageous.
- Exposure to LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases or prompt engineering would be advantageous.
- Familiarity with document-processing pipelines, including text extraction, chunking, embeddings and metadata management.
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