Mindset
- Full-stack mindset, comfortable across AI, backend development, and cloud infrastructure
- Already using AI tools in your daily workflow (Claude Code, Copilot, or similar)
- Proactive and self-directed; you own outcomes end-to-end and spot problems before they're handed to you
- B2+ English, comfortable collaborating across distributed, multicultural teams
Presales & Client Engagement
- Owns the client technical relationship; leading discovery, decomposing ambiguous requirements into technical components, presenting architecture, and pushing back on scope when it doesn't match timeline or budget
- Produces scoped, phased delivery plans with clear deliverables, dependencies, and risks
- Experience with cost estimation and cloud architecture cost optimization
Python, AI & Cloud
- 7+ years building and running production systems not only demos and POCs
- Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts and experience integrating AI/ML components into solutions
- Strong Python proficiency: OOP, design patterns, clean architecture, and performance optimization
- Experience building RESTful APIs with FastAPI, Django REST, or Flask
- Experience making and defending architectural trade-off decisions: microservices vs monolith, sync vs event-driven, SQL vs NoSQL
- Strong testing practices: pytest, mocking, and integration tests for AI systems
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Hands-on experience building production LLM-based applications and agentic workflows
- Experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or AWS Bedrock)
- Experience building and optimizing RAG systems
- Understanding of LLM evaluation techniques and quality assurance approaches
- Experience deploying and maintaining AI/ML models in production environments
- Hands-on experience with AWS (SageMaker, Bedrock, Lambda, ECS, S3, SQS, ECR, or similar); GCP considered
- Experience with React/Vue
- AWS and Claude Code Certifications
Nice to Have
- Experience with Streamlit or Gradio for AI prototyping
- Modern Python tooling (ruff, uv, pyproject.toml, pyright)
- CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
- Experience in an additional language (Go, Node.js, or Rust)
- Front-end experience