Senior Backend Engineer (ai Focus)

Deel Deel · Enterprise · Spain · R&D

Senior Backend Engineer at Deel, focusing on integrating AI capabilities into payroll workflows. Requires 8+ years of backend experience with JavaScript, Node.js, and PostgreSQL, and hands-on experience integrating AI APIs into production systems. Familiarity with AI APIs like OpenAI, Gemini, and prompt engineering is a plus.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build backend services that bring AI capabilities to life inside our Payroll workflows
  2. Collaborate with ML engineers and operations to create real-world AI-powered tools

Skills

Required

  • backend/full-stack engineering
  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • API integration
  • integrating AI APIs into production systems
  • unstructured/messy data
  • ETL pipelines

Nice to have

  • Python scripting experience for AI workflows
  • OpenAI APIs
  • Gemini APIs
  • Anthropic APIs
  • chatbot building
  • conversational interfaces
  • Prompt engineering fundamentals
  • Document/file parsing (CSV, PDF, Excel)

What the JD emphasized

  • Hands-on experience integrating AI APIs into production systems

Other signals

  • integrating AI APIs into production systems
  • AI-powered tools
  • AI capabilities