Senior Backend Engineer (Python) for AI-Powered Industrial Manufacturing Platform

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Python) to help build an AI-powered “co-intelligence” platform for industrial manufacturing. Our product combines data analytics, time-series data, and agentic AI systems to guide engineers and operators in reducing wasted energy and carbon emissions.

This is not a traditional backend role.

You’ll play a key role in designing AI-native backend systems, where LLMs and agentic workflows are a first-class architectural concern, not just an API integration.

You’ll collaborate closely with AI engineers, data engineers, infrastructure, and frontend teams, owning features end-to-end from early prototypes to production systems.

🎯 What You Will Do

• Design, build, and operate Python-based backend services and APIs for AI-driven web applications
• Architect complex business logic, state management, and workflow orchestration, including AI-powered decision flows
• Design and integrate LLM-based and agentic systems, including:
• Agent workflows and orchestration
• State and memory management
• Tool calling and retries
• Evaluation, reliability, and failure handling
• Integrate backend services with time-series data platforms and AI reasoning engines
• Own the full feature lifecycle: design → development → testing → deployment → monitoring
• Collaborate cross-functionally with AI, data, infra, and frontend teams in a fast-moving startup environment

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• Support customer pilots by developing custom data processing and AI-driven modules

🔍 What We’re Looking For (Core Requirements)

• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• 5+ years building backend systems with Python
• Hands-on experience and strong intuition with LLM-based or agentic AI systems, gained through:
• Professional work and/or
• Meaningful open-source contributions or personal projects
• Demonstrated understanding of:
• Agent workflows, state, and memory
• Orchestration patterns and tool calling
• LLM failure modes (hallucinations, reliability, evaluation, edge cases)
• Proven experience building backend services with complex business logic (not just API wiring)
• Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
• Solid computer science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, design patterns)
• Experience building RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL services

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• Strong testing culture and experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Comfortable working in early-stage, fast-paced environments with high ownership
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across disciplines

➕ Nice to Have

• Experience contributing to open-source projects
• Experience building data-heavy backends for analytics or dashboards
• Familiarity with Docker and cloud deployments (GCP preferred; AWS/Azure welcome)
• Experience with event-driven architectures or message queues (Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Full-stack experience with React, Next.js, or TypeScript
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and system reliability

💼 Benefits

• Educational resources and continuous learning support
• Work From Anywhere & flexible schedule
• Referral program
• Supportive, chill, and highly collaborative environment