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# Python Backend Engineer - AI Service Operations

- **Company:** ALTEN Consulting GmbH
- **Location:** Hamburg, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software Applications, Automation of Tests, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Monitoring of Systems, PostgreSQL, SQL Databases, Spring Cloud, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Flask (Web Framework), Large Language Models, Backend, Git, Fastapi, Codebase, Restful APIs, Docker
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.alten-consulting.de/job/apply/507241?page_lang=de

## About the Role

* have a completed vocational training, university degree, or equivalent professional experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical field
 * bring strong professional experience in Python backend development, including FastAPI, Flask or comparable frameworks, as well as debugging and maintaining complex codebases
 * possess solid expertise in REST APIs, PostgreSQL, SQL, data modeling, automated testing and collaborative Git-based development workflows
 * have hands-on experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native applications, monitoring tools and distributed systems; AWS experience is considered a strong advantage
 * understand AI-powered applications, including LLM integrations, RAG concepts, vector databases and AI service architectures, and are fluent in English with excellent communication skills in an international environment

## Description

* take technical ownership for the reliable operation, monitoring and continuous improvement of AI-powered applications in production
 * investigate incidents, perform root cause analyses and resolve issues across Python backends, React frontends, APIs, databases and AI integrations
 * implement bug fixes, hotfixes and technical improvements while ensuring high code quality through testing, peer reviews and CI/CD processes
 * optimize application performance, monitoring, logging, alerting and resilience while automating recurring operational activities
 * collaborate closely with AI engineers, cloud teams, platform teams and business stakeholders to support deployments, hypercare phases and operational excellence
 * maintain technical documentation, troubleshooting guides and operational runbooks while supporting knowledge transfer and long-term application stability