AI Agent Backend Engineer

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• Required - Bachelor's Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; equivalent practical experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

• Required - 5 years Professional back-end/server side software development experience, including building and consuming RESTful APIs, with Python/FastAPI and async frameworks.
• Preferred - AWS experience; modern deployment practices (containers, CI/CD). Hands-on experience of Agentic or LLM-integrated services; experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases; experience in a healthcare or other regulated, HIPAA-relevant environment.

• Preferred - AWS Certified Developer, Microsoft Azure Developer Associate, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer

• Ability to translate business and product requirements into technical solutions.
• Independently manage system reliability, uptime, and production stability.
• Anticipates and mitigates security and data privacy risks.
• Adapts to evolving AI/LLM-enabled architectures.
• Ability to balance speed, scalability, and compliance in development decisions.
• Ability to design scalable, high-performance backend systems.
• Collaborates with cross-functional technical and product teams.

• Designs, builds, and maintains server-side services, APIs, and system architecture for AI-enabled applications.
• Develops and documents REST APIs and integration endpoints consumed by front-end engineers, conversational flows, and connected enterprise systems.
• Designs and manages data storage solutions and server-side data structures, and produce reusable, well-tested code libraries.
• Implements authentication, authorization, and security controls appropriate to a HIPAA-regulated environment, including secure handling of protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII).
• Inspects and optimizes services for speed, scalability, latency, and stability, and troubleshoot defects and performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborates with product managers, quality assurance, integration engineers, and front-end and design teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Follows change-management and backup practices before making significant changes to production services.
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards