Senior Backend Ai Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual incentive

Medical coverage

401K plan

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited is hiring a Senior Backend AI Engineer in New York, NY. The role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend systems powering AI-driven applications.

You will drive agentic AI initiatives, work with cutting-edge LLM workflows, and collaborate across multiple teams to deliver reliable autonomous systems. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in distributed systems, strong NodeJS/TypeScript or Golang experience, and proficiency with cloud

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems with NodeJS/Javascript/Typescript and/or Golang.
• Strong experience with LLM systems, agentic workflows or advanced ML infrastructure.
• Proven ownership of complex, cross-cutting agentic systems spanning multiple teams or products.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services and APIs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect solutions meeting business needs.
• Drive technical direction for agentic AI initiatives, influencing architecture patterns and autonomy boundaries.
• Lead production-grade agentic AI systems used across multiple products.
• Operate in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and ensure reliability under high load.

Skills

Distributed systems

Agentic AI

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

AWS

Go

Node.js/TypeScript

REST

Kubernetes

LangGraph/LangChain/AirFlow

PostgreSQL

MongoDB/Redis

Git CI/CD

Job description

Role - Senior Backend AI Engineer

Experience Required -7+ Years

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

We are looking for a talented and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing team. The Senior Backend Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable and efficient backend systems that power our applications. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in backend development, solid understanding of distributed systems, LLM systems, agentic workflows and experience with cloud technologies.

Core engineering stack

• Languages: NodeJS, TypeScript, Go
• APIs and services: REST, microservices
• Cloud and infrastructure: AWS and/or GCP, Kubernetes
• Distributed systems: event-driven architectures, including Kafka
• Orchestration Frameworks: LangGraph, LangChain, AirFlow, etc
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field. Master's degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems with a strong proficiency in NodeJS/Javascript/Typescript, and/or Golang.
• Strong experience with LLM systems, agentic workflows or advanced ML infrastructure
• Proven ownership of complex, cross-cutting agentic systems spanning multiple teams or products.
• Strong engineering fundamentals across backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.
• Deep experience across the agentic AI stack, including planning, tool use, memory, and evaluation.
• Fluency with AI-assisted and agentic development workflows.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and translating them into shipped, reliable autonomous systems.
• Ability to influence technical direction and align teams without formal authority.
• Experience in workflow engines, async processing, queues, and streaming systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms and services and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in database technologies such as SQL (e.g. PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB, Redis).
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex technical challenges and propose effective solutions.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building agentic systems in fintech or other regulated industries.
• Experience as a founding engineer or early technical leader in AI-driven products.
• Demonstrated success delivering technically complex autonomous systems
• Meaningful contributions to open-source AI or agentic frameworks.
• Familiarity with fine-tuning, model optimization and inference pipelines is a plus.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services and APIs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, architect solutions, and implement features that meet business needs.
• Optimize backend systems for performance, scalability, and reliability, ensuring smooth operation under high load.
• Drive technical direction for agentic AI initiatives, influencing architecture patterns, autonomy boundaries, and system design.
• Design, build, and operate production-grade agentic AI systems used across multiple products.
• Own and evolve shared agentic AI capabilities, including:
  • Agent frameworks and orchestration layers,
  • Planning, tool use, and memory strategies
  • Retrieval and grounding (RAG) pipelines
  • LLM infrastructure, inference, and model gateways
  • Evaluation, observability, and safety tooling for autonomous systems
• Lead technical design reviews and help teams navigate tradeoffs involving autonomy, safety, reliability, scalability, and cost.
• Implement best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment automation.
• Work closely with DevOps teams to deploy and manage backend services in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to define API contracts and ensure seamless integration between frontend and backend systems.
• Communicate effectively with team members, stakeholders, and management to provide project updates, status reports, and technical recommendations.

Base Salary Range : $100,000 to $130,000 Per Annum

TCS Employee Benefits Summary:

• Discretionary Annual Incentive.
• Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.
• Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.
• Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.
• Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.
• Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.
• Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

Location

New York, NY

Function

TECHNOLOGY

Role

Engineer

ID

433816

Skills

AWS | Go | Node JS | REST | TypeScript

Salary Range

$100,000 - $130,000