Senior Software Engineer

Senior Backend Software Engineer (Ai Engineering)

Location:
Remote (EST time zone) Engagement: B2B Contract About Ovyo Ovyo is a B2B services company providing flexible engineering teams and talent solutions to the streaming, media, satellite, and communications industries. With a global presence across multiple locations (UK, India, Portugal, South Africa, Brazil, US, and Eastern Europe), we deliver a mix of long-term client engagements and shorter consulting projects. Our teams build the platforms that shape how the world consumes video and connects, rapidly accelerating both industry experience and career growth.

About the Role
Our client is looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to work on the Enterprise Platform that builds and runs the internal applications that connect their teams. This person will own data access layers that sit between key user facing services and growing set of AI assisted apps and tools. You will design and build high performance, scalable backend services. You’ll work mainly in Go, building gRPC and REST APIs backed by a variety of GCP cloud services and components. Responsibilities
• Design, build, and maintain data intensive gRPC and REST APIs in Go and Node.js
• Refactor legacy Node.js services into idiomatic Go, improving performance and stability.
• Build and operate Kafka pipelines for high throughput event streaming, including producer and consumer logic, schema management, and monitoring.
• Containerize and deploy Go microservices on Kubernetes (EKS and GKE), using AWS and GCP services to build resilient, cost-effective systems.
• Contribute to architecture reviews with practical feedback on scalability, fault tolerance, and cost.
• Review code, mentor junior engineers, and champion best practices in testing, CI/CD, and security.
• Partner with Product, Program Management, QA, and other teams to align delivery with business goals.
• Prototype emerging technologies, including AI-assisted tools, to build and scale large platforms and workflows.

Requirements:
• 10 years + years of professional software engineering, including owning backend services in production.
• Ideally 2
- years’ experience building production, highly scalable Go services, with a solid grasp of concurrency, profiling, and performance tuning – or a willingness to learn Go.
• Advanced skills in 1 or more programming languages
• Experience designing high performance gRPC and REST services, including protobuf contracts and API versioning.
• Experience building Kafka or event streams and connected apps, including schema evolution, topic design, ACLs, consumer groups, offset handling, and delivery guarantees.
• Production experience running services on Kubernetes in AWS (EKS) or GCP (GKE), and comfort working across both clouds.
• An AI first engineering workflow. You use agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc) daily to plan, write, test, refactor, and review code. You can explain how you keep quality high Nice to Have
• Shipped LLM powered features to production
• Built or integrated MCP servers or other agent tooling that gives AI agents extended abilities
• Designed evals and guardrails for AI features, such as test datasets, regression checks, prompt injection, and HITL (human in the loop) review.
• Shipped high quality UI/UX designs into production
• Node.js/TypeScript, Express, and React
• Helm, Terraform, and enterprise CI/CD pipelines
• Observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Open Telemetry
• Redis, MongoDB sharding, or ETL pipelines. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may not be able to respond to every applicant individually. However, all applications will be carefully considered against both the opportunity applied for and other relevant current or future opportunities across Loop Future. We appreciate your interest in joining us and the time taken to submit your application.