Software Engineer- Python

Insight Global is looking for a senior Software Engineer with a Python focus to join a leading client in Plano, TX. This role focuses on building, scaling, and owning backend frameworks and services that power AIdriven products. You will not build or train LLM models, but you will design and productionize the systems, components, and workflows that interact with LLMs and AI services-ensuring quality, reliability, security, and performance at scale.
We are looking for a senior, selfdirected engineer who has worked on real AI products, understands how LLMs behave in production, and can independently take ownership of complex systems endtoend.

What You'll Do
- Design, build, and own scalable Python/FastAPI services and internal frameworks that integrate with LLMs and AI platforms.
- Develop AIenablement frameworks that manage prompt inputs, response validation, quality checks, retries, guardrails, and cost controls.
- Integrate thirdparty AI providers (e.g., Gemini via Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI) using secure, observable, productionready patterns.
- Build both synchronous and eventdriven backends (REST APIs, webhooks, queues) with strong error handling and resiliency.
- Optimize latency, throughput, and cost through caching, rate limiting, retries, and circuitbreaker patterns.
- Own services from development through production: testing, CI/CD, monitoring, runbooks, and operational readiness.
- Collaborate closely with product, data, and ML teams to translate AI product requirements into robust backend workflows and APIs.
- Act as a technical owner-asking intelligent questions, navigating ambiguity, and driving solutions rather than waiting for direction.
- Uphold security, privacy, and compliance standards (secrets management, OAuth/OIDC, PII handling).

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Required Skills & Experience
- 6-8+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong seniorlevel mindset and ownership mentality.
- Strong experience with Python 3x in production environments.
- Proven experience building and operating production FastAPI or Flask APIs (secure, versioned, welldocumented).
- Handson experience integrating AI/LLM services into real products (not just experimentation).
- Solid understanding of how LLMs work in practice and the components involved in interacting with them (prompts, responses, guardrails, quality controls).
- Cloud experience with GCP or AWS (Azure acceptable), including managed compute and messaging services.
- Experience with relational databases (Postgres/MySQL) and caching layers (Redis or equivalents).
- CI/CD experience (e.g., GitHub Actions, Cloud Build), containerization with Docker, and familiarity with IaC (Terraform a plus).


Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- Experience building AI frameworks or platforms that sit around LLMs (input validation, response evaluation, cost/quality optimization).
- Intermediate data engineering skills using Python and SQL.
- Security experience: OAuth/OIDC, JWTs, servicetoservice auth, secrets management.
- Familiarity with data pipelines and schema evolution practices.
- Frontend experience with React is a strong plus (potential fullstack ownership).


Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.