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Senior Backend AI Engineer

Diverse Lynx LLC

Job Location:

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 11 October 2026 (Yesterday)

Application Deadline: 8 January 2027

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Title: Senior Backend AI Engineer
Location: NYC NY Phoenix AZ (Onsite)
Duration: Full-time

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

We are looking for a talented and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing team.
The 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 Eligible to workP Kubernetes
Distributed systems: event-driven architectures including Kafka
Orchestration Frameworks: LangGraph LanEligible to workhain AirFlow etc
Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering or related field. Masters 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.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building agentic systems in fintech or other regulated industries.
Experience as a founding engineer or early technical leader in AI-driven products.
Demonstrated success delivering technically complex autonomous systems
Meaningful contributions to open-source AI or agentic frameworks.
Familiarity with fine-tuning model Eligible to workimization and inference pipelines is a plus.

Roles & 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.
Eligible to workimize 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.

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