Senior Backend Engineer (AI & Identity)
Looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build complex backend systems with AI-driven capabilities for an Identity Access Management platform. Focus on distributed systems, APIs, security, and production reliability. Opportunity to learn and work with modern AI technologies.
Responsibilities
- Design and build complex backend systems and product capabilities end-to-end.
- Develop and integrate AI-driven and agentic capabilities into the product.
- Connect AI workflows with backend services, APIs, databases, identity systems, and external tools.
- Solve production challenges around reliability, state management, retries, failure handling, performance, and scale.
- Take significant ownership over architecture, technical decisions, and product development.
- Learn and deepen expertise in LLMs, AI agents, orchestration frameworks, and production AI systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong backend development skills.
- Strong experience designing and building complex, production-grade backend systems.
- Experience with Cybersecurity, IAM, Identity, SSO, Authentication/Authorization, or related security technologies – strong advantage.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, databases, system architecture, reliability, and scalability.
- Ability to independently own technical challenges from design through production.
- Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to quickly learn new technologies.
- Genuine interest in AI, LLMs, and agentic systems and motivation to develop deep expertise in the field.
Nice to have
- Previous hands-on experience with LLMs, AI agents, or AI workflows.
- Familiarity with LangGraph, LangChain, Google ADK, or similar frameworks.
- Experience with Vertex AI or other cloud AI platforms.
- Experience integrating AI capabilities into production systems.