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Posted 29 Oct 2026

SDE III (Backend)

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Employment
Full time
Team
Software Engineering
Posted
29 Oct 2026

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer with deep expertise in LLMs, agentic AI, and agent lifecycle development, plus hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot. The ideal candidate should have experience building scalable backend systems and integrating AI capabilities into production-grade applications. Candidates with experience in Java, Python, Go, or Ruby are welcome, provided they are willing to work with Java and Spring Boot.


Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Java, Spring, and Spring Boot.
  • Build and integrate LLM-powered applications, AI agents, and agentic workflows.
  • Work across the complete agent lifecycle, including planning, tool calling, execution, memory management, orchestration, monitoring, and evaluation.
  • Develop APIs and backend services to integrate LLMs with enterprise applications, databases, and external tools.
  • Implement agentic AI architectures to support multi-step reasoning, task automation, and autonomous decision-making.
  • Optimize backend performance, scalability, reliability, and security for production environments.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and deploy AI-powered solutions.
  • Troubleshoot, test, and continuously improve AI-driven backend applications.


Requirements:

  • Strong software engineering experience with Java, Python, Go, or Ruby, with a willingness to work extensively with Java.
  • Hands-on experience with Spring Framework and Spring Boot.
  • Practical experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs) and building LLM-powered applications.
  • Strong experience in Agentic AI, including developing and implementing AI agents and agentic workflows.
  • Understanding of the agent lifecycle, including planning, tool use, execution, orchestration, memory, and evaluation.
  • Experience integrating AI models and services into backend applications.
  • Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices, data structures, and software design principles.
  • Experience building, testing, and deploying production-ready applications.


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with LLM orchestration frameworks and agent development tools.
  • Familiarity with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), vector databases, embeddings, and prompt engineering.
  • Experience with multi-agent systems, tool calling, and workflow orchestration.
  • Knowledge of cloud platforms, containerization, and CI/CD practices.
  • Experience monitoring and evaluating LLM applications in production.


Ideal Candidate Profile:

  • A hands-on engineer who combines strong backend development fundamentals with practical LLM and Agentic AI experience.
  • The candidate should be comfortable working across the AI agent lifecycle and willing to build backend services in Java using Spring and Spring Boot.
  • Must-have skills: LMs, Agentic AI, Agent Lifecycle, Spring, Spring Boot, and proficiency in Java/Python/Go/Ruby, with willingness to work on Java.

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