Senior AI Engineer — Agentic AI & Backend - Equity Eligible

FourKites; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) match

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Parental leave

PTO + recharge days

Wellness stipend

Learning & development

Job summary

fourkites, a leading global supply chain visibility platform, seeks a Senior AI Engineer to advance its agentic AI products. The role is ~75-80% backend and 20-25% frontend, collaborating with distributed teams and enterprise customers to deliver scalable AI solutions.

You will design and productionize AI agents, build Python-based backends, and integrate with a React frontend on Kubernetes, focusing on data models, APIs, and robust tooling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional backend or software development experience with exposure to AI or agentic systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and at least one of Java or GoLang.
• Two or more years of hands-on work with LangGraph or comparable agentic frameworks.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB and front-end basics including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, RESTful APIs, microservices, Git workflows, and Agile tools such as JIRA and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and productionize AI agents and workflows using agentic frameworks such as LangGraph
• Develop and maintain backend services in Python plus Java or GoLang across the full software development lifecycle
• Define data models and database schemas, and integrate backend APIs with the React-based frontend
• Code-review peers, uphold quality standards, and debug production issues including live AI agent behavior
• Collaborate with DevOps to deploy and operate services on Kubernetes infrastructure

Skills

Backend development

AI/agentic systems

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

Python

Java

Go

LangGraph

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

React

Kubernetes

REST APIs

Git workflows

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

fourkites, a leading global supply chain visibility platform, seeks a Senior AI Engineer to advance its agentic AI products. The role is ~75-80% backend and 20-25% frontend, collaborating with distributed teams and enterprise customers to deliver scalable AI solutions.

You will design and productionize AI agents, build Python-based backends, and integrate with a React frontend on Kubernetes, focusing on data models, APIs, and robust tooling.