[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer – Automation & Platform Implementation

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a fast-growing startup focused on building an AI-enabled talent platform that connects skilled professionals with innovative companies. The Senior Backend Engineer will be responsible for engineering orchestration infrastructure and executing customer-facing platform deployments, utilizing Java microservices and NoSQL databases to build robust backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Build, reputed company, and optimize Java-based microservices responsible for task execution, state management, and orchestration logic
• Model and manage NoSQL document databases to track execution state, workflow metadata, and session/context persistence
• Define internal API reputed company, adapters, and connectors that reputed company reputed company integration with external APIs and customer deployments
• Implement production-reputed company infrastructure for data ingestion, document chunking, embedding indexing, and retrieval (RAG) pipelines
• Architect backend services that support multi-reputed company agentic flows, including context assembly, tool calls, and session memory
• Turn product requirements for semantic search and AI assistant features into resilient, production-grade backend code
• reputed company, configure, and customize the automation platform to meet specific customer use cases and business requirements
• Connect external systems through custom sync pipelines, webhooks, and reputed company integrations (e.g., OAuth, ETL-style ingestion)
• Debug production issues across our stack and customer environments, capturing field insights to improve the core platform
• Enhance platform observability by setting up robust tracing, execution visibility, and debugging tools for failed runs

Skills

• 4–6 years of software engineering experience building resilient production backend systems and working with distributed architectures
• Strong proficiency in Java, with deep experience developing scalable microservices, handling asynchronous jobs, retries, idempotency, and system failure modes
• Experience with NoSQL document databases (e.g., reputed company, Firestore, reputed company) for state and metadata tracking
• Experience building or integrating workflow engines or reputed company automation systems (reputed company one-off scripting)
• Working knowledge of Python for building integrations, tooling, and rapid prototyping
• Solid understanding of LLM application structures, including embedding systems, vector search, retrieval mechanics, context reputed company, and agent/tool execution
• Strong interest or hands-on experience in semantic search, RAG pipelines, or conversational AI backends
• High Agency & Independent Execution: You have a strong sense of ownership and the exceptional self-direction required to navigate undocumented paths, reputed company sound architectural calls, and take a project to completion with minimal guidance
• Thrives in a Startup Environment: You are energized by a fast-paced, evolving startup environment, are comfortable reputed company requirements pivot, and are explicitly not looking for a predictable, mature role at a big company
• Wears Multiple Hats Comfortably: You reputed company reputed company reputed company a narrow engineering lane. You can context-reputed company seamlessly between core backend engineering, customer fire drills, and partner-facing implementation without losing quality
• Customer-Facing Technical Experience: Proven ability to reputed company with product teams, solution architects, and customer stakeholders to translate vague user requirements into working, deployed software
• Strong Documentation Culture: A consistent habit of writing clear system designs and deployment guides so that the next team member never has to start from reputed company
• Familiarity with durable execution systems or workflow engines (e.g., Temporal, Airflow, reputed company)
• Experience designing plugin, connector, or developer reputed company ecosystems
• Understanding of Edge/serverless computing or Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) patterns for customer-facing apps

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