Senior Software Engineer - AI Systems

• 5+years' experience in Python backend development using frameworks like Fast API, Flask, or Django, with solid software design principles (SOLID, DRY).
• Proven experience building and consuming RESTful APIs, managing authentication (OAuth/JWT), and implementing event-driven workflows.
• Hands-on experience integrating LLMs or AI APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic) into applications. Comfortable working with AI inputs and outputs without training models directly.
• Familiarity with frameworks like Lang Chain or protocols such as MCP, or readiness to adopt them quickly.
• Practical understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and cloud-based deployment and infrastructure management.

• Design and implement robust Python backend services that connect our survey platforms with advanced processing capabilities.
• Develop and maintain custom MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and secure API layers.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and observability across systems that integrate with third party AI models.

• Write production-grade code supporting the full survey lifecycle—including authoring, data collection, and analytics.
• Turn experimental prototypes into stable, maintainable product features.
• Implement secure authentication, authorization, and data-handling patterns for service integrations.

• Evaluate new frameworks and libraries for potential inclusion in our engineering stack.
• Refactor and optimize existing codebases to support modern, event-driven architectures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to operationalize new tools and ensure they meet engineering standards

Ipsos Interactive Services is a part of Ipsos group, a global market and public opinion research company which delivers information and analysis that makes our complex world easier and faster to navigate and inspires our clients to make smarter decisions. Since 2000, Ipsos Interactive Services is a fully global company with regional hubs, satellites and local footprints all over in Ipsos group. Recently, the company has over 2,000 passionate online and mobile experts worldwide, from whom 1000+ only in Romania HUB (Bucharest, Brasov & Iasi). Our company's mission is to deliver industry leading research on a wide range of international projects for the Ipsos researchers and Ipsos end clients, everywhere, using the most complete range of techniques possible Online-Mobile and Offline at the highest levels of quality, security, speed and cost efficiency.

Joining Ipsos offers you the opportunity to become part of an innovative, international Group that leads its markets. Ipsos has a strong presence in 90 countries, 18.000 employees and more than 5000 clients worldwide. A passionate company with curious experts that not only provide the most precise measurement, but shape it to provide True Understanding of Society, Markets and People. To do this we use the best of science, technology and know-how and apply the principles of security, simplicity, speed & substance to everything we do. So that our clients can act faster, smarter and bolder.

So, what’s in it for you, as an IIS employee?

Flexible Benefits, Learning Programs and Multicultural Exposure, Opportunities for Professional Growth, Mentoring Program, Work Life Balance, Positive & Welcoming Environment, Collaborative Atmosphere & Supportive Teams, Social Responsibility and Volunteering Opportunities, Diversity and Inclusion Culture, Ethical Conduct and much more.

"Innovative Minds Powering Data-Driven Excellence"