Decskill

AI engineer for agentic backend

In short

Senior backend engineer role at Decskill, an IT consulting company, to build orchestration services connecting AI agents, business logic, enterprise APIs and human approvals. The role focuses on distributed systems, microservices, long-running workflows, retrieval/context/tool-execution services, and API security. Requires strong backend engineering experience, fluency in English, and comfort collaborating with AI, platform and data engineers. Hybrid position based in Lisbon.

About Decskill
We are growing. And we are looking for talented people. At Decskill, we believe that technological excellence is driven by human talent. We are an IT consulting company with more than 10 years of consolidated experience in the market, focused on building long-term relationships with both our clients and our people. Today, we are a community of over 800 professionals, working from Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, contributing to impactful technology initiatives.
Requirements
•Strong experience in backend development using modern software engineering practices
•Solid knowledge of distributed systems, REST APIs, asynchronous processing and event-driven architectures
•Experience building scalable cloud-native applications and microservices
•Ability to develop orchestration services connecting AI agents, business logic, enterprise APIs and human approvals
•Expertise in long-running workflows, persistent state management, retries and fault recovery
•Experience integrating enterprise applications through APIs, messaging platforms and event-based architectures
•Strong software design skills, with a focus on maintainability, resilience and reusable components
•Ability to develop services for retrieval, context assembly, tool execution and memory management
•Knowledge of authentication, authorization, API security and secure software development
•Experience implementing logging, metrics, tracing and telemetry for backend services
•Comfortable collaborating with AI engineers, platform engineers, data engineers, product managers and domain specialists
•Fluency in English
Nice to have
•Experience with AI-assisted development tools and engineering automation is a strong plus
Conditions
•Long-term projects with national and international context
•Opportunities to grow technically and professionally
•A people-first culture, focused on transparency and trust
•Teams that value ownership, collaboration and stability

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