Backend AI Engineer, Rate on DOE on C2C, Location: NYC, Onsite position.

Job Summary:

Senior Backend Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable

and efficient backend systems that power our applications. The ideal candidate will have a strong

background in backend development, solid understanding of distributed systems, LLM

systems, agentic workflows and experience with cloud technologies.

Core engineering stack

Languages: NodeJS, TypeScript, Go

APIs and services: REST, microservices

Cloud and infrastructure: AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes

Distributed systems: event-driven architectures, including Kafka

Orchestration Frameworks: LangGraph, LangChain, AirFlow, etc

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services and APIs.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, architect solutions, and

implement features that meet business needs.

Optimize backend systems for performance, scalability, and reliability, ensuring smooth

operation under high load.

Drive technical direction for agentic AI initiatives, influencing architecture patterns,

autonomy boundaries, and system design.

Design, build, and operate production-grade agentic AI systems used across multiple

products.

Own and evolve shared agentic AI capabilities, including:

Agent frameworks and orchestration layers,

Planning, tool use, and memory strategies

Retrieval and grounding (RAG) pipelines

LLM infrastructure, inference, and model gateways

Evaluation, observability, and safety tooling for autonomous systems

Lead technical design reviews and help teams navigate tradeoffs involving autonomy,

safety, reliability, scalability, and cost.

Implement best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment automation.

Work closely with DevOps teams to deploy and manage backend services in cloud

environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).

Collaborate with frontend engineers to define API contracts and ensure seamless

integration between frontend and backend systems.

Communicate effectively with team members, stakeholders, and management to provide

project updates, status reports, and technical recommendations.

Requirements:

Bachelor s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field. Master's degree preferred.

10+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems with a strong proficiency in

NodeJS/Javascript/Typescript, and/or Golang.

Strong experience with LLM systems, agentic workflows or advanced ML infrastructure

Proven ownership of complex, cross-cutting agentic systems spanning multiple teams or

products.

Strong engineering fundamentals across backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud

infrastructure.

Deep experience across the agentic AI stack, including planning, tool use, memory, and

evaluation.

Fluency with AI-assisted and agentic development workflows.

Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and translating them into shipped, reliable

autonomous systems.

Ability to influence technical direction and align teams without formal authority.

Experience in workflow engines, async processing, queues, and streaming systems.

Experience with cloud platforms and services and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker,

Kubernetes).

Proficiency in database technologies such as SQL (e.g. PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB,

Redis).

Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex technical challenges and

propose effective solutions.

Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and continuous integration/continuous

deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional

teams and stakeholders.