Senior AI/ML Backend Engineer for Scalable Gen AI Platform

Lyra Health, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 161,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Coaching and therapy services

Equity in the company

Paid time off (vacation, sick days,hol

Parental leave

401K with matching

Monthly tech allowance

Well-being perks and activities

Job summary

Lyra Health, Inc. is seeking a Senior AI/ML Backend Engineer to build backend services for our AI/ML product features. You will own scalable, resilient backend infrastructure and deploy applications in production while coding daily to deliver high-quality software.

You will collaborate with therapists, data scientists, engineers and product managers to advance Lyra’s AI-driven mental health platform and its integrated care solutions.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience delivering production ready products.
• Ability to write high-quality code in Python.
• Experience with modern async Python web frameworks (e.g., FastAPI) and handling data streaming (WebSockets, Server-Sent Events).
• Experience working with Docker and deploying applications to Kubernetes.
• Experience with relational and low-latency databases.
• Experience integrating RAG into AI features.
• Experience building generative AI chatbots.
• Experience with LLM observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Langfuse).
• Familiarity with LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex) and APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock).
• A love of learning new technologies and building systems from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Build the backend services for AI/ML product features.
• Create scalable, resilient, and high-performing backend infrastructure.
• Deploy and manage applications in production.
• Code daily to deliver high-quality software.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

WebSockets

Server-Sent Events

LLM observability

Generative AI chatbots

RAG integration

Strong communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Relational databases

Langfuse

LangChain

LlamaIndex

OpenAI API

Anthropic API

AWS Bedrock

Protobuf

Job description

Lyra Health, Inc. is seeking a Senior AI/ML Backend Engineer to build backend services for our AI/ML product features. You will own scalable, resilient backend infrastructure and deploy applications in production while coding daily to deliver high-quality software.

You will collaborate with therapists, data scientists, engineers and product managers to advance Lyra’s AI-driven mental health platform and its integrated care solutions.