Senior Backend Engineer, AI Agent Orchestration (Remote)

Freehand; Chicago (IL); Teletrabalho; USD 140 000 - 210 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Full Health coverage

Monthly home-internet costs

Flexible working hours

Complimentary food & snacks at the CHN

Resumo da oferta

Freehand seeks a Backend Engineer to build distributed systems, APIs, and AI-agent infrastructure powering enterprise execution. You will design and scale backend services that orchestrate agents, enforce business rules, and integrate with ERPs and financial systems, ensuring security and traceability.

This is not CRUD work; you will develop backend for autonomous systems handling real money and risk, with observability and testing to keep systems trustworthy at scale.

Qualificações

• 6 - 15 yrs of experience building production backend systems.
• Proficiency in Python, NodeJS, Go, or similar backend languages.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, APIs and microservices, databases (SQL and NoSQL), and message queues / event-driven architectures.
• Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
• Experience with financial systems, enterprise SaaS platforms, or sensitive/regulated data.
• Bonus: multi-agent orchestration, observability tooling, LLM tooling, and agent frameworks.

Responsabilidades

• Build high-throughput, low-latency backend services for AI agent execution.
• Design workflow orchestration for multi-step enterprise processes.
• Develop rule engines and policy enforcement for enterprise compliance.
• Create robust APIs and integrations with ERPs, procurement tools, payment rails.
• Implement observability, audit, and traceability for AI decisions.
• Ensure secure data pipelines for sensitive data.
• Develop agent runtimes and multi-agent coordination.
• Create testing harnesses for agent pipelines.
• Define metrics for reliability, cost, and SLA adherence.

Conhecimentos

Backend development experience

Python

NodeJS

Go

Distributed systems

APIs

Microservices

Databases

Message queues

Observability tooling

Ferramentas

ERP integrations

Payment rails

CRM/ERP data handling

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Freehand seeks a Backend Engineer to build distributed systems, APIs, and AI-agent infrastructure powering enterprise execution. You will design and scale backend services that orchestrate agents, enforce business rules, and integrate with ERPs and financial systems, ensuring security and traceability.

This is not CRUD work; you will develop backend for autonomous systems handling real money and risk, with observability and testing to keep systems trustworthy at scale.