CDI - AI Senior Backend Engineer - SBS - Paris

Courbevoie, IDF, France

Sopra Steria

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Description de l'entreprise

SBS is a global financial technology company that’s helping banks and the financial services industry to reimagine how to operate in an increasingly digital world. SBS is a trusted partner of more than 1,500 financial institutions and large-scale lenders in 80 countries worldwide, including Santander, Societé Generale, KCB Bank, Kensington Mortgages, Mercedes-Benz, and Toyota FS. Its cloud platform offers clients a composable architecture to digitize operations, ranging from banking, lending, compliance, to payments, and consumer and asset finance. With 3,400 employees in 50 offices, SBS is recognized as a Top 10 European Fintech company by IDC and as a leader in Omdia’s Universe: Digital Banking Platforms. SBS is headquartered in Paris, France.

Description du poste

Job Description 

Join our team as a Senior Backend and play a pivotal role in evolving a robust, document-centric AI platform. Our system orchestrates asynchronous AI/ML pipelines, integrates state-of-the-art models (NLP, LLMs, OCR), and powers advanced knowledge workflows for enterprise users. You will lead architectural evolution, drive rapid AI/ML feature integration, and champion system observability and resilience. 

Key Responsibilities 

  • Architect, implement, and optimize scalable backend services (Python/FastAPI) supporting asynchronous, document-driven AI/ML pipelines. 
  • Integrate and operationalize new AI/ML models (NLP, LLMs, OCR, etc.), ensuring seamless deployment, versioning, and monitoring. 
  • Enhance system observability, reliability, and fault tolerance across distributed services and background job managers. 
  • Lead efforts to scale ingestion, processing, and retrieval of large document corpora, leveraging advanced storage and indexing strategies. 
  • Collaborate with product and research teams to rapidly prototype and productionize new AI/ML features and document-centric workflows. 
  • Identify and address architectural bottlenecks, technical debt, and opportunities for system modularization and performance improvement. 
  • Mentor engineers, establish best practices, and foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement. 

Qualifications

Key Qualifications & Skills 

  • 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with deep expertise in Python (FastAPI, asyncio, SQLAlchemy) and distributed systems. 

  • Proven track record scaling asynchronous AI/ML pipelines and integrating diverse models (NLP, LLMs, OCR, etc.) into production systems. 

  • Strong knowledge of containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and cloud-native deployment patterns. 

  • Experience with observability stacks (logging, metrics, tracing) and designing for high availability and graceful degradation. 

  • Advanced understanding of document storage, retrieval, and indexing (e.g., MinIO, Postgres, vector DBs). 

  • Familiarity with authentication/authorization (JWT, OAuth, Keycloak) and secure API design. 

  • Excellent communication skills and a passion for mentoring and technical leadership. 

Informations supplémentaires

Les avantages à nous rejoindre :

  • Un accord télétravail pour télétravailler jusqu'à 2 jours par semaine selon vos missions.
  • Un package avantages intéressants : une mutuelle, un CSE, des titres restaurants, un accord d'intéressement, des primes vacances. 
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Tags: APIs Architecture Banking Distributed Systems Docker Engineering FastAPI Finance FinTech Kubernetes LLMs Machine Learning ML models NLP OCR Pipelines PostgreSQL Python Research

Region: Europe
Country: France

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