Senior Python Backend Engineer - AI Service Operations

With over 20 years of industry experience, ALTEN Consulting Services GmbH offers its renowned customers from industry and business highly specialized engineering and IT services for the joint implementation of cross-industry and cross-technology solutions. Competence, commitment and passion unite all our employees at ALTEN Consulting Services GmbH. The focus is always on working together as partner, a strong sense of technology, personal contact with our customers and the creativity of each individual.

Become a part of our success story.

• take technical ownership for the reliable operation, monitoring and continuous improvement of AI-powered applications in production
• investigate incidents, perform root cause analyses and resolve issues across Python backends, React frontends, APIs, databases and AI integrations
• implement bug fixes, hotfixes and technical improvements while ensuring high code quality through testing, peer reviews and CI/CD processes
• optimize application performance, monitoring, logging, alerting and resilience while automating recurring operational activities
• collaborate closely with AI engineers, cloud teams, platform teams and business stakeholders to support deployments, hypercare phases and operational excellence
• maintain technical documentation, troubleshooting guides and operational runbooks while supporting knowledge transfer and long-term application stability

• have a completed vocational training, university degree, or equivalent professional experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical field
• bring strong professional experience in Python backend development, including FastAPI, Flask or comparable frameworks, as well as debugging and maintaining complex codebases
• possess solid expertise in REST APIs, PostgreSQL, SQL, data modeling, automated testing and collaborative Git-based development workflows
• have hands‑on experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native applications, monitoring tools and distributed systems; AWS experience is considered a strong advantage
• understand AI-powered applications, including LLM integrations, RAG concepts, vector databases and AI service architectures, and are fluent in English with excellent communication skills in an international environment

• Permanent Employment
• Attractive Salary
• Mobile working in consultation
• Individual Trainings
• Flexible Working Hours
• Employee Events
• Wellpass

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Severely disabled persons will be given preferential consideration if equally qualified.