# Backend Engineer - AI Platform

**Company**: Epiq
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

You will build and operate the services behind Epiq's AI-driven legal platform, focusing on asynchronous processing, data pipelines, and authentication and authorization.

Epiq AI Labs is the innovation and engineering hub behind Epiq's next-generation AI platform for corporate legal departments and global law firms.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Implement, test, and operate backend services and APIs that support the agentic AI platform

- Build and maintain message-queue-based asynchronous processing, including retry and idempotency handling

- Contribute to data pipelines that ingest, parse, store, and index large volumes of documents

- Implement authentication and authorization functionality using OAuth2, OIDC, and SAML

- Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas and queries

- Integrate search and vector storage technologies such as Solr and Qdrant

- Instrument services with metrics, logs, and traces

- Write automated tests and participate in code review

- Collaborate with AI engineers, other backend engineers, product management, and security stakeholders

**Required Qualifications:**

- 5+ years of professional experience building and operating backend services in production

- Proficiency in Python

- Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

- Working experience with relational databases, including schema design and query optimization

- Experience with asynchronous or event-driven processing

- Experience designing and implementing REST APIs

- Familiarity with containerized deployment (Docker and exposure to Kubernetes)

- Familiarity with observability practices

- Demonstrated proficiency using AI tools in software development

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience with high-volume data or document processing pipelines

- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform

- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architectures

- Exposure to AI/ML systems or data-intensive applications

- Experience in legal technology or another regulated industry

- Experience with authentication and authorization standards (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML)

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- RabbitMQ
- Solr
- Qdrant
- OAuth2
- OIDC
- SAML
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Terraform
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry

### Nice to have
- multi-tenant SaaS architectures
- AI/ML systems
- data-intensive applications
- legal technology

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