Backend Engineer jobs in United States

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Commerce

Senior Backend Engineer, AI Agent

Commerce

Posted: 10/21/2026
GraphQLGRPCPHPPythonRubyGo
Broadcom

Forward Deployed Engineer – Kubernetes

Broadcom

Posted: 10/21/2026
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Walmart

Staff Software Engineer – Backend

Walmart

Posted: 10/21/2026
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Zendesk

Senior Partner Platform Architect

Zendesk

Posted: 10/21/2026
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Bank of America

Senior Engineer – Enterprise GenAI Platform Architect

Bank of America

Posted: 10/21/2026
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Bank of America

Senior Engineer – Enterprise GenAI Platform Architect

Bank of America

Posted: 10/21/2026
Distributed Systems
Ramp

Senior Backend Engineer, Accounting

Ramp

Posted: 10/21/2026
SAIC

Junior Java Developer

SAIC

Posted: 10/21/2026
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Reddit, Inc.

Staff Backend Engineer, User Safety

Reddit, Inc.

Posted: 10/21/2026
PythonRubyRustGo
Intapp

Database Engineer

Intapp

Posted: 10/21/2026
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Affirm

Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Workload Safety

Affirm

Posted: 10/21/2026
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KeyBank

Senior Storage Engineer

KeyBank

Posted: 10/21/2026
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Crowe

Technical Architect – Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Applications

Crowe

Posted: 10/21/2026
Azure
Avanade

Associate Director, Technical Architecture – Advisory

Avanade

Posted: 10/21/2026
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Huntington National Bank

IS Technical Specialist – Back-end Tech Lead

Huntington National Bank

Posted: 10/21/2026
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Gainwell Technologies

Senior C#/.NET Developer, Medicaid Systems

Gainwell Technologies

Posted: 10/21/2026
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OPENDataJobs

Software Engineer, Python, AWS

OPENDataJobs

Posted: 10/21/2026
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Arista Networks

Technical Architect – Enterprise Data

Arista Networks

Posted: 10/21/2026
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Astra

Backend Engineer

Astra

Posted: 10/21/2026
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Duke Energy Corporation

Engineer III – Senior Engineer, Energy Storage Engineering

Duke Energy Corporation

Posted: 10/20/2026
Commerce

Senior Backend Engineer, AI Agent

Commerce
Posted 10/21/2026full-timeRemote • Texas • United StatesSenior💰 $116,000 - $195,000 per yearWebsite
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Demonstrates expertise in building and iterating on AI agents using Go and Python, with a strong focus on prompt engineering, agent orchestration, and LLM applications. Proven ability to mentor engineers and drive architecture decisions while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Go ProgrammingPython ProgrammingLLM Application DevelopmentPrompt EngineeringAPI Design

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
GraphQLGRPCPHPPythonRubyGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Design, build, and iterate on AI agents in Go/Python using an orchestrator/sub-agent architecture
  • Cover intent interpretation, delegation, and safe action execution
  • Own eval-driven development, including golden datasets, scorers, and regression suites
  • Track critical quality metrics such as discovery recall and quote accuracy
  • Develop and refine prompts and model configurations as versioned, tested artifacts
  • Integrate agents with MCP servers and backend tools
  • Define safe tool-call contracts, approval flows for write actions, and guardrails against prompt injection and abuse
  • Instrument agents with tracing, metrics, and cost tracking
  • Use production signals to drive quality improvements
  • Collaborate with product designers and frontend engineers on conversational experiences
  • Build proof-of-concept agents to validate user stories and harden them to GA quality
  • Drive architecture decisions on ambiguous problems
  • Mentor engineers in agent engineering practices

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5+ years of experience in backend or full-stack software development
  • Hands-on experience building agentic AI/LLM applications
  • Preferred minimum Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, SW, CE, MIS; or equivalent experience
  • Strong and proven development skills in Go, Python, Ruby, or PHP
  • Production experience with LLMs such as Gemini, Anthropic, or OpenAI
  • Experience building LLM evaluation datasets, scorers/metrics, and using eval results to drive iteration
  • Strong understanding of prompt engineering, tool/function calling, and agent orchestration patterns
  • Deep experience designing and building APIs using gRPC, GraphQL, or REST
  • Experience integrating data across systems
  • Hands-on experience building MCP servers or LLM tool integrations
  • Excellent problem-solving skills
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills in cross-functional teams
  • Strong preference toward execution and delivery
  • Preferred experience with Google ADK, LangChain/LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or similar agent frameworks
  • Preferred experience with Braintrust, LangSmith, or similar evaluation/observability platforms
  • Preferred experience with RAG systems and retrieval quality tuning
  • Preferred experience with e-commerce platforms or SaaS product development
  • Preferred background in conversational AI or natural language processing

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Remote-first work environment
  • Optional collaborative workspaces in Austin, Atlanta, and London
  • Variable compensation such as bonus or commission, where applicable
  • Equity, where applicable
  • Benefits in accordance with local policies
  • Inclusive and accessible hiring experience
  • Government ID and biometric verification process via Persona

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Hard Skills
Backend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentAgent OrchestrationEvaluation Dataset CreationGRPCGraphQLRESTMCP Server IntegrationTool/Function CallingQuality Metrics Tracking
Soft Skills
Problem-SolvingCollaborationCommunicationExecution FocusMentoring
Tools & Technologies
Google ADKLangChainLangGraphSemantic KernelBraintrustLangSmith
Certifications & Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in CSEESWCEMIS
Industry Keywords
Conversational AINatural Language ProcessingE-CommerceSaaS DevelopmentRAG Systems