Senior Backend Engineer - Agentic AI & Data Pipelines

Trustible; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in early-stage startup

Job summary

Trustible in Arlington, VA is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build out our backend and agentic AI capabilities. This is a backend-heavy role focused on MCP tool integrations, data pipelines, and infrastructure that enables AI agents to act reliably within our platform.

You will work with Django and Python across the stack, make architecture calls with autonomy, mentor others, and shape the technical roadmap as the team grows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend software engineering with real depth in Python.
• Strong Django or comparable web framework experience.
• Experience building data pipelines: ingestion, transformation, processing at scale.
• Familiarity with LLM tool-calling patterns, MCP, or agent orchestration concepts.
• Strong systems thinking about failure modes, retries, idempotency, and data consistency.
• Excellent written communication; ability to document a design decision clearly.

Responsibilities

• Design and build MCP tool integrations connecting our platform to model providers and external systems.
• Architect data pipelines that ingest, structure, and process AI agent outputs at scale.
• Build and maintain core platform features in Django and Python, alongside the agentic work.
• Make sound tradeoffs between build speed and long-term maintainability, and defend those calls.
• Partner with our CTO on technical architecture for the agentic roadmap.
• Set technical standards for agentic development that other engineers can follow as the team grows.

Skills

Backend Python

Django

Data pipelines

LLM tool-calling

Systems thinking

Technical writing

Tools

AWS

Job description

Trustible in Arlington, VA is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build out our backend and agentic AI capabilities. This is a backend-heavy role focused on MCP tool integrations, data pipelines, and infrastructure that enables AI agents to act reliably within our platform.

You will work with Django and Python across the stack, make architecture calls with autonomy, mentor others, and shape the technical roadmap as the team grows.