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Backend Engineer - AI Agents & Code Optimization

Vikgol
Multiple Locations
1 - 3 Years

Posted on: 26/02/2026

Job Description

Job Title : Backend Engineer AI Agents & Code Optimization

Experience : 1+ Year

Employment Type : Full-time

Location : Remote

About the Role :

We are looking for a hands-on Software Engineer to build and improve AI agents that work directly on our production code.

Your core responsibility will be to design and evolve a specialized AI agent that deeply understands our codebase and actively helps make it faster, cleaner, simpler, and cheaper to maintain.

This is not a research role. This is real work on real systems with real business impact.

How We Work :

- Business impact first : Cheaper, Faster, Better

- Simple beats complexalways

- Small changes, shipped fast

- You own your work end-to-end

- First question is always: Do we even need this?

- Flat team, zero micromanagement

- Decisions can changeadaptability matters

- No long PRDs: one clear goal ? discuss ? execute

- Ship, measure, improve, repeat

What You Will Do :

- Build and use AI agents to optimize, refactor, and remove code

- Feed logs, metrics, and performance data back into AI agents

- Profile applications and identify performance bottlenecks

- Optimize SQL queries and database usage

- Improve deployment pipelines and release processes

- Continuously improve internal AI tooling

- Work closely with infrastructure and production systems

Tech You Should Be Comfortable With :

You dont need to be an expert in everything, but you should be comfortable working with :

- Linux CLI (Required)

- Python

- PHP

- SQL (MySQL or MariaDB)

- Shell scripting

- Large Language Models (LLMs)

What Were Looking For :

- 1+ year of software engineering experience (or strong hands-on projects)

- Solid understanding of performance optimization

- Experience cleaning up legacy or messy codebases

- Practical profiling and debugging skills

- Comfortable working close to infrastructure and deployments

- Automation-first mindset

- Ability to explain technical decisions clearly and simply in English

Nice to Have :

- Experience building AI agents

- Exposure to large or long-running systems

- CI/CD or deployment automation experience

When You Join :

- Career Growth : You are expected to grow into a tech lead, entrepreneur, or highly skilled specialist

- Bleeding-Edge Tech : Hands-on experience with alpha/beta software, cutting-edge infrastructure, and top tier hardware

- Global Exposure : Work with a global team and directly with C-level leadership

- Real Impact : Your code directly solves real user problems and moves the company forward


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