Senior AI & Grid Backend Architect

Astreya; California (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical (UHC Kaiser options)

Dental coverage

Vision insurance

401k plan

Paid time off

Life insurance

Job summary

Astreya seeks a Senior Engineer to drive digital transformation across core energy and utility platforms. You will modernize legacy infrastructure, implement AI models, LLMs, and autonomous agents, and build scalable back-end architectures and data pipelines for real-time intelligent decisions.

You will also deploy high-performance microservices, RESTful APIs, and GraphQL endpoints, while occasional React.js front-end work supports internal integrations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in CS/SE/AI.
• 8+ years in backend, data, or full-stack software development.
• Hands-on LLM development, fine-tuning, and agent frameworks.
• Strong Python (FastAPI/Flask) plus Node.js experience.

Responsibilities

• AI, LLM & Agent Implementation: Architect and deploy LLM apps, RAG pipelines, and multi-agent systems for grid monitoring and automated workflows.
• Backend & API Architecture: Build high-performance microservices, RESTful APIs, and GraphQL with Python for data-heavy pipelines.
• System & Infrastructure Modernization: Migrate legacy systems to cloud-native, scalable architectures using AWS/Azure serverless, ECS/Docker, and vector databases.
• Data & Spatial Management: Design SQL, NoSQL, Graph, and Vector databases for power grid modeling and time-series data.
• Frontend Support: Maintain basic React.js components to expose AI outputs and dashboards.
• Engineering Standards & Collaboration: Write clean code, lead reviews, mentor juniors, collaborate in Agile.

Skills

Python FastAPI/Flask

Node.js Express.js

LLM Development

Cloud AWS Azure

Docker

SQL

NoSQL Couchbase

Graph/Vector DBs

TypeScript

React.js

Education

Bachelors in CS/SE/AI

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

AutoGen

CrewAI

Pinecone

Weaviate

Qdrant

Pgvector

Job description

Astreya seeks a Senior Engineer to drive digital transformation across core energy and utility platforms. You will modernize legacy infrastructure, implement AI models, LLMs, and autonomous agents, and build scalable back-end architectures and data pipelines for real-time intelligent decisions.

You will also deploy high-performance microservices, RESTful APIs, and GraphQL endpoints, while occasional React.js front-end work supports internal integrations.