后端工程师（AI/LLM应用）

This is a remote position.

• Project Scope: Full-Time Engineering Role

• Location: Remote -Open to candidates across the MENA region, including candidates based in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

• Role Type:Full-Time Contractor

• Reports to: You will work closely with the founders and product team to design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs, translating product and customer needs into secure and reliable features.

• Time-zone overlap requirement:Must be comfortable and available to collaborate9am–1pm Pacific time.

The opportunity
Our client is looking for aBackend Engineerto help build and improve anAI-powered legal technology platform. The platform helps law firms handle new-client inquiries and automate workflows. This is an opportunity to join a small team where engineers work closely with the founders and product team, helping shape features from idea through production.The role will involve backend development, AI/LLM integrations, databases, APIs, and cloud services.
About the Organization
Our client builds AI-powered legal technology that helps law firms handle new-client inquiries and automate workflows. The team is focused on building practical software that improves how legal teams manage customer interactions and internal processes.
What you will do
· Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs.

• Translate product/customer needs into secure, reliable features from design through production.

• Design database schemas, migrations, and customer-data access rules.

• Integrate AI/LLM services into production workflows with checks for errors and unreliable results.

• Build messaging, document-processing, and workflow-automation integrations.

• Deploy and monitor containerized cloud services.

• Collaborate with founders and the product team on technical decisions and product improvements.

Requirements
What you bring
Must-haves:

• 3 years of backend or full-stack engineering experience.

• StrongTypeScriptskills and production experience with.

• Experience building APIs and working with relational databases, especiallyPostgreSQL.

• Good understanding of secure data access and reliable production services.

• Experience deploying services usingcontainers and cloud platforms.

• Hands-on experience integratingAI or LLM servicesinto software products.

• Clear communication, sound judgment, and comfort working in a small team with changing priorities.

Nice-to-have: Spanish speaking is a big plus.
How the engagement works
· The hiring process begins with a conversation with the client to discuss your experience, technical background, and approach to building backend and AI-powered products.

• You are expected to provide your own laptop and basic equipment, maintain reliable connectivity, and have a secure working environment suitable for client work.

• The engagement is full-time contractor

• If you contract through Apricot, planned check-ins are [month 1 and month 3 / other approved cadence] to see how the engagement is working and help address issues.

About Apricot
Apricot is a non-profit sourcing firm connecting displaced and underserved professionals from Palestine and the wider MENA region with global employment opportunities. We combine a clear social-impact mission with fast, high-quality recruitment delivery for international clients.

Originally posted on Himalayas