AI Platform Engineer (Contract/Contract-to-Hire)

A financial dashboarding company serving the veterinary industry is building an AI-powered middleware platform enabling customers to query financial data through natural language conversation rather than traditional dashboards. This is the founder's first technical hire.

Core Responsibilities:

• Architect an agentic AI layer with MCP servers exposing proprietary data repositories
• Build query orchestration routing through LLM calls
• Implement multi-tenant authentication with per-customer data isolation
• Build audit logging and rate limiting
• Integrate with veterinary ERP and accounting systems

Required Skills:

• 5+ years backend/platform engineering (Python/TypeScript)
• Multi-tenant SaaS with strict data isolation experience
• At least one shipped production LLM-integrated application (RAG, tool-use agents, conversational AI)
• API design expertise
• SQL and database optimization
• Security-first architecture mindset

Strong Advantages: MCP server development, LLM API familiarity (Claude, OpenAI, function calling), financial/GL accounting knowledge, LangChain or LlamaIndex, Docker, cloud deployment, CI/CD

Rate: $40-$80/hour Duration: 8 weeks (contract-to-hire available)

Location: Remote (Worldwide)