Lead Backend AI Engineer-12 Months Contract -Remote Role-Direct Customer.

Accion Labs is seeking a Lead Backend AI Engineer for a 12-month contract role. The successful candidate will coordinate with offshore teams, collaborate with product teams to gather requirements, and drive the end-to-end delivery of projects while demonstrating strong architectural thinking and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities:

• Experience coordinating with offshore teams
• Ability to demonstrate experience collaborating with product teams to gather requirements, working with engineering teams to design solutions, breaking down work into clear, actionable tasks, and driving end-to-end delivery of projects
• Must demonstrate strong architectural thinking and the ability to clearly articulate system designs, trade-offs, and technical decisions to large technical audiences
• Critical thinking – Able to think coherently, ask appropriate clarifying questions, and provide solutions to problems presented by the interviewer
• Communication – Able to communicate concisely and answer questions asked by the interviewer, staying on topic
• Nonfunctional aspects – Able to share experience and answer questions about nonfunctional aspects such as scaling, monitoring and operations, load and performance testing, code quality, and maintenance (using AI for self-productivity is a significant plus)
• Exposure to large distributed systems projects – Experience implementing large distributed systems, working in sizable teams, and collaborating with cross-functional team members to execute projects
• Extensive experience in distributed systems – Designing microservice architectures and building microservices using REST APIs, as well as using distributed messaging systems like Kafka or similar
• Logical thinking & problem solving – Able to solve medium-complexity coding problems (LeetCode medium level)
• Demonstrates flexibility to provide sufficient overlap with the onsite team in a fast-paced environment
• Basic awareness of LLMs and the Generative AI space
• Python – Proficiency in Python and basic training in Python programming is a definite plus
• Gen AI / Agentic AI – Training and exposure to Generative AI and Agentic AI is a definite plus

Requirements:

• Python
• Lead Experience with offshore teams
• Distributed System Design
• Gen AI / Agentic AI
• Experience coordinating with offshore teams
• Ability to demonstrate experience collaborating with product teams to gather requirements
• Working with engineering teams to design solutions
• Breaking down work into clear, actionable tasks
• Driving end-to-end delivery of projects
• Must demonstrate strong architectural thinking and the ability to clearly articulate system designs, trade-offs, and technical decisions to large technical audiences
• Critical thinking – Able to think coherently, ask appropriate clarifying questions, and provide solutions to problems presented by the interviewer
• Communication – Able to communicate concisely and answer questions asked by the interviewer, staying on topic
• Nonfunctional aspects – Able to share experience and answer questions about nonfunctional aspects such as scaling, monitoring and operations, load and performance testing, code quality, and maintenance (using AI for self-productivity is a significant plus)
• Exposure to large distributed systems projects – Experience implementing large distributed systems, working in sizable teams, and collaborating with cross-functional team members to execute projects
• Extensive experience in distributed systems – Designing microservice architectures and building microservices using REST APIs, as well as using distributed messaging systems like Kafka or similar
• Logical thinking & problem solving – Able to solve medium-complexity coding problems (LeetCode medium level)
• Demonstrates flexibility to provide sufficient overlap with the onsite team in a fast-paced environment
• Basic awareness of LLMs and the Generative AI space
• Python – Proficiency in Python and basic training in Python programming is a definite plus
• Education: Bachelor s degree in computer science, information Systems, or related discipline
• Training and exposure to Generative AI and Agentic AI is a definite plus