- Strong Python experience with FastAPI or a comparable async framework.

- Track record of building and operating production APIs and backend services.

- Hands-on cloud experience with data warehouses, document databases, and serverless/container platforms.

- Production integration of LLM APIs, including structured output handling and performance tradeoffs.

- Understanding of JWT, RBAC, SSO, and practical application security.

- Ability to own API design, data logic, deployment, and basic incident resolution.

Preferred :

- Experience with LangChain or similar LLM orchestration tools.

- CI/CD experience using Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.

- Experience partnering with React, Next.js, or TypeScript frontend teams.

- Background in analytics, reporting, data warehousing, or BI-adjacent systems.

- Exposure to NL-to-SQL, LLM evaluation, or automated insight-classification patterns.

- Experience supporting formal security reviews such as SAST/DAST.