Backend Engineer - AI/LLM Applications

This is a remote position.

• Project Scope: Full-Time Engineering Role
  

• Location: Remote - Open to candidates across the MENA region, including candidates based in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
  

• Role Type: Full-Time Contractor
  

• Reports to: You will work closely with the founders and product team to design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs, translating product and customer needs into secure and reliable features.
  

• Time-zone overlap requirement: Must be comfortable and available to collaborate 9am–1pm Pacific time. 
  

The opportunity

Our client is looking for a Backend Engineer to help build and improve an AI-powered legal technology platform. The platform helps law firms handle new-client inquiries and automate workflows. This is an opportunity to join a small team where engineers work closely with the founders and product team, helping shape features from idea through production. The role will involve backend development, AI/LLM integrations, databases, APIs, and cloud services.

About the Organization

Our client builds AI-powered legal technology that helps law firms handle new-client inquiries and automate workflows. The team is focused on building practical software that improves how legal teams manage customer interactions and internal processes.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs.
  

• Translate product/customer needs into secure, reliable features from design through production.
  

• Design database schemas, migrations, and customer-data access rules.
  

• Integrate AI/LLM services into production workflows with checks for errors and unreliable results.
  

• Build messaging, document-processing, and workflow-automation integrations.
  

• Deploy and monitor containerized cloud services.
  

• Collaborate with founders and the product team on technical decisions and product improvements.
  

Requirements

What you bring

Must-haves:

• 3 years of backend or full-stack engineering experience.
  

• Strong TypeScript skills and production experience with Node.js.
  

• Experience building APIs and working with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL.
  

• Good understanding of secure data access and reliable production services.
  

• Experience deploying services using containers and cloud platforms.
  

• Hands-on experience integrating AI or LLM services into software products.
  

• Clear communication, sound judgment, and comfort working in a small team with changing priorities.
  

Nice-to-have: Spanish speaking is a big plus.

How the engagement works

• The hiring process begins with a conversation with the client to discuss your experience, technical background, and approach to building backend and AI-powered products.
  

• You are expected to provide your own laptop and basic equipment, maintain reliable connectivity, and have a secure working environment suitable for client work.
  

• The engagement is full-time contractor
  

• If you contract through Apricot, planned check-ins are [month 1 and month 3 / other approved cadence] to see how the engagement is working and help address issues.
  

About Apricot

Apricot is a non-profit sourcing firm connecting displaced and underserved professionals from Palestine and the wider MENA region with global employment opportunities. We combine a clear social-impact mission with fast, high-quality recruitment delivery for international clients.