About this role
About the Role
We’re hiring a senior backend-first product engineer to help build and scale Virtasant’s AI-powered cost intelligence platform. This role is explicitly product-focused; you will not be pulled into client delivery. Your mission is to build core platform capabilities that mature our FinOps platform into a smart intelligence platform, including AI-driven insights, workflows, and agent-based features that can be sold as standalone capabilities.
What You'll Do
- Design and build backend-heavy platform features for our platform.
- Productionalise AI-enabled capabilities (e.g. anomaly detection, recommendations, agent-based workflows).
- Implement AI thoughtfully across the entire SDLC - prototyping, testing, iteration, and deployment.
- Collaborate closely with Product to turn vision into shipped features.
- Identify blockers early, communicate clearly, and iterate fast.
- Help shape engineering standards and patterns as the product matures.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years professional software engineering experience.
- Strong backend engineering background (full-stack a plus, not required).
- Hands-on experience building on AWS.
- Strong proficiency in Python (Java/C++ acceptable as secondary languages).
- Demonstrated experience using AI in real production systems (not just experimentation - clear, repeatable patterns).
- Comfortable working in ambiguity with product-led direction.
- Ability to architect backend services that support asynchronous workflows, event-driven pipelines, and AI agents that operate over time rather than single request/response cycles.
- Comfortable articulating why certain AI approaches were not used, including trade-offs around latency, explainability, data availability, or long-term maintainability.