Senior AI Backend Engineer

Title:
Senior AI Backend Engineer

Location:
Redwood City, CA (3 days/week onsite)

Employment Type:
W2 Contract (No C2C)

Minimum years of experience:
7 Years

Seeking Candidates who have strong AI/LLM and backend developer experience

• LLM product experience: prompting, tool calling, evals, latency/cost tradeoffs.
• Agent architectures: planning/execution loops, memory/state, sandboxed tools, HITL, safety constraints.
• Frameworks/SDKs: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain/LangGraph, Anthropic Agents, OpenAI tool calling, sandboxed runtimes.
• Infra familiarity: Kubernetes, serverless, stream processing, feature stores, vector search.

What We’re Looking For (Required)

• 6+ years building backend systems for production SaaS, platforms, or distributed systems.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, queues/workers, caching, and production ops.
• Data modeling depth: relational design (Postgres/MySQL), migrations, indexing, query optimization, data correctness.
• API design excellence: clear, evolvable contracts across internal services and external partners.
• Thrive in high-velocity environments without compromising reliability/security.
• Ownership mindset: build → ship → operate; comfortable with ambiguity and rapid iteration.
• LLM product experience: prompting, tool calling, evals, latency/cost tradeoffs.
• Agent architectures: planning/execution loops, memory/state, sandboxed tools, HITL, safety constraints.
• Frameworks/SDKs: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain/LangGraph, Anthropic Agents, OpenAI tool calling, sandboxed runtimes.
• Infra familiarity: Kubernetes, serverless, stream processing, feature stores, vector search.

If this opportunity matches your skills and experience, please apply today or email your resume to
dkumar@tekstaffingsolutions.com