Senior Software Engineer - AI Backend

Overview

Senior Software Engineer - AI Backend

As Relyance AI’s Senior Software Engineer, AI Backend, you will strategize, drive, and execute on the core initiatives connecting output of NLP (Natural Language Processing) and AI models with the Relyance product. You will partner with cross-functional stakeholders to design and build a flexible, powerful, and robust NLP backend that scales the impact of AI for our customers. Given that you are constructing the foundation for a system with complex data that rapidly evolves over time, you need to pay close attention to detail, anticipate and welcome constant change, maintain a forward-thinking outlook, all while being fast and scrappy enough to address present needs.

As a Senior Software Engineer - AI Backend, your role will include:

What You’ll Do (Day-to-Day Impact)

• Design and build production-grade backend services in Python that power AI-driven security products
• Implement LLM-powered agent workflows for real-world AI Security use cases
• Design, implement, and maintain GraphQL APIs for internal and customer-facing systems
• Model, store, and optimize data in MongoDB for performance and scale
• Containerize applications with Docker and deploy, scale, and operate them using Kubernetes
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform
• Build secure APIs with authentication, authorization, and rate limiting
• Own system scalability, reliability, and performance from development to production
• Collaborate and work closely with a global, cross-functional team across time zones

Must-Have Skills

• Excellent experience with Python backend development
• Production level experience building solutions using with LLMs & Agentic AI systems(LangChain, LangGraph, PyTorch)
• Strong experience with Docker & Kubernetes in production
• Experience with MongoDB
• Strong understanding of GraphQL
• Experience with Terraform
• Knowledge of API security & rate limiting
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure

What You’ll Get

• End-to-end ownership and technical autonomy
• Opportunity to build a generational AI Security product
• Work with a global team in a fast-moving, high-impact environment
• Competitive compensation and strong growth opportunities