Senior Backend Engineer, AI Agents & APIs

Northrop Grumman; New York (NY); Remote; USD 104,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Savings plan

Company paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking Backend Software Engineers to join the Agent Foundation team within i2 Ecosystem & Experience. You will build the APIs and backend services that support enterprise AI agents, including agent registration, configuration, data storage, administration and connections to LangSmith.

This position can be hired at Level 3 or Level 4 depending on experience and education; preferred location is Falls Church, VA, but a virtual telecommuter option is available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, data science, or a related STEM discipline with 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience with Python, TypeScript, Java, C#, Go or comparable languages.
• Experience with APIs (e.g. REST APIs), SQL, relational databases and schema migrations.
• Experience with queues, caches, scheduled jobs or asynchronous processing.
• Understanding of service authentication, authorization and protection of sensitive data.
• Experience with Git, automated testing, debugging and collaborative software delivery.
• Ability to explain technical decisions clearly and work effectively with other engineers.
• Experience supporting systems in secure government environments, including access controls, security requirements and controlled change processes.
• Ability to obtain and maintain any security clearance required for the position. U.S. citizenship may be required based on the final clearance determination.
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g. docker).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs for agent registration, configuration, versioning and administration.
• Design database schemas, migrations and reliable data access.
• Implement authentication, authorization and auditing.
• Develop background jobs, queues and event processing with retries.
• Integrate services with LangSmith, model gateways and enterprise APIs.
• Write automated tests and use logs, metrics and traces to diagnose production issues.
• Review code, document APIs and support software releases and maintenance.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Java

C#

Go

REST APIs

SQL

Relational Databases

Schema Migrations

Authentication

Authorization

Data Protection

Git

Automated Testing

Debugging

Collaboration

Government Security

Security Clearance

Docker

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/related STEM

Tools

LangSmith

PostgreSQL

Redis

Azure

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking Backend Software Engineers to join the Agent Foundation team within i2 Ecosystem & Experience. You will build the APIs and backend services that support enterprise AI agents, including agent registration, configuration, data storage, administration and connections to LangSmith.

This position can be hired at Level 3 or Level 4 depending on experience and education; preferred location is Falls Church, VA, but a virtual telecommuter option is available.