AI Platform Engineer – Backend & Orchestration

iSolved HCM; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

iSolved HCM is seeking a backend-focused engineer to help build internal platforms that automate team workflows. This role focuses on production internal systems, not customer-facing features, and involves shaping platform components that agents and internal tools run on.

You will work on the MCP framework, LLM integrations, and multi-agent orchestration to reduce repetitive work and improve reliability. Ideal candidates will have strong Python skills, experience with backend APIs at scale, and

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping and maintaining production backend systems.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Solid backend/API experience building REST APIs at scale and comfort with relational databases.
• Experience integrating LLM APIs into real applications.
• Hands-on comfort with MCP (building and/or consuming servers and clients).
• Experience with at least one agent orchestration framework (e.g., LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel).
• Understanding of common agent design patterns, and how the right choice for a given task i.e. deterministic workflows vs. role-based vs. autonomous agents.
• Experience with agentic software development - building with AI coding tools and agent-based workflows as part of how you work.
• Working familiarity with agent-to-agent (A2A) concepts and interoperability patterns.
• Comfortable working in a cloud environment and on the command line; fluent with Docker, Git, and CI/CD.
• Sound instincts around secrets management and authentication/authorization.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services and REST APIs powering agent orchestration and LLM integration.
• Develop and operate MCP servers and clients including tool registration and lifecycle management.
• Integrate LLM services with robust error handling across workflows.
• Implement multi-agent and multi-step workflows with an orchestration framework.
• Improve observability, monitoring, and cost/latency visibility for non-deterministic systems.
• Collaborate with Architecture, DevOps and Security to ship secure, well-tested CI/CD services.

Skills

Python

Backend APIs

LLM integration

MCP servers

Agent orchestration

Docker

Git

CI/CD

Cloud

Secrets management

A2A concepts

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

Semantic Kernel

Node/TypeScript

C#

Rust

Redis

Docker

Git

CI/CD

Job description

iSolved HCM is seeking a backend-focused engineer to help build internal platforms that automate team workflows. This role focuses on production internal systems, not customer-facing features, and involves shaping platform components that agents and internal tools run on.

You will work on the MCP framework, LLM integrations, and multi-agent orchestration to reduce repetitive work and improve reliability. Ideal candidates will have strong Python skills, experience with backend APIs at scale, and