Senior Backend / Product Engineer (AI Platform)

Headquarters: Frost Bank Tower Austin, North America, 78701 United States Senior Backend / Product Engineer (AI Platform) Location: Remote Type: Full-time Team: Cost Optimisation (CO) – Product Engineering Reports to: Product Lead (CO) About Virtasant Virtasant is a global technology services company with a network of over 4,000 professionals across 130+ countries. We specialise in cloud architecture, engineering, and transformation, helping enterprises deliver at scale while building internal capability and reducing third-party dependency. We work with ambitious, forward-thinking organisations to solve real-world challenges through hands-on execution, deep technical expertise, and a delivery-led approach. The Role We’re hiring a senior backend-first product engineer to help build and scale our AI-powered cost intelligence platform. This role is explicitly product-focused. You will not be pulled into client delivery. Your mission is to build core platform capabilities that mature our current FinOps platform into a smart intelligence platform - including AI-driven insights, workflows, and agent-based features that can be sold as standalone capabilities. You’ll operate with high autonomy, significant ownership, and direct access to product leadership. Think founding engineer energy , without the chaos. You will help define how AI capabilities move from experimentation to durable product features, with an emphasis on reliability, cost efficiency, and clear user value - not just model novelty. What You’ll Be Doing Design and build backend-heavy platform features for our platform Productionalise AI-enabled capabilities (e.g. anomaly detection, recommendations, agent-based workflows) Implement AI thoughtfully across the entire SDLC - prototyping, testing, iteration, and deployment Collaborate closely with Product to turn vision into shipped features Identify blockers early, communicate clearly, and iterate fast Help shape engineering standards and patterns as the product