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Senior Backend Engineer

AI Talent Now


Job Location:

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: USD 150 - 190
Experience Required: 5years
Posted: 9 June 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 6 September 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy
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Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with 5 years of experience to join our team and build production Agentic systems at scale. You will be a strong individual contributor with a co-founder mindset helping us push the frontier of whats possible with Agentic workflows in Healthcare. We need someone who can take powerful platform capabilities design multi-step workflows and ship them to production to directly impact patient outcomes on our AI-powered care orchestration platform. Roughly 60-70% of your time is deployment-focused; the remainder is platform contribution: building reusable workflow primitives improving shared infrastructure based on patterns you see across customers and shaping how we architect agentic systems at scale.


Ideally 5 years of experience backend engineering focused on building and operating production AI systems.

Work experience

Experience & Tenure: 5 years of hands-on experience building and operating production backend systems preferred with some recent experience in AI-powered services and automation workflows in high-availability environments.



Core Backend Expertise: Proven experience designing and operating complex backend systems including a deep understanding of concurrency scalability reliability and distributed systems patterns.



Technical Stack: Strong experience building and maintaining large-scale Python codebases and hands-on experience with async or event-driven architectures.



Production AI Focus: Experience building and shipping AI-powered systems beyond prototypes or internal demos.


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Seen good engineering at scale (big company well-funded startup) and optionally worn multiple hats in a fast-paced startup environment

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Education

Computer Science degree from a top-tier or Top 30 university.

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Hard skills

Expert-level proficiency in Python at scale


Infrastructure ownership: builds deploys monitors and iterates on end-to-end systems (on call rotation is part of the role)

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Agentic development fluency - orchestrating sub-agents when to use off-the-shelf vs. frontier models

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Soft skills

Co-founder mindset - ships fast understands trade-offs drives business outcomes



Requirements
  • Looking for candidates with both big tech and startup experience emphasizing adaptability and technical excellence.
  • Co-founder mindset is essential; candidates should be able to handle varied tasks and drive business outcomes.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and experience with high-scale systems is mandatory.
  • Preferred background includes successful startup experience or impactful roles in major tech companies.


Benefits
Equity:
Competitive equity


Required Skills:

Python Agentic AI LLM AWS GCP


Required Education:

BS in engineering (EE preferred any engineering accepted