Senior Backend Engineer, AI-Driven Workflow Platform

ST Labs Pvt Ltd.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site Midtown Manhattan office

Job summary

STLabs in New York City is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Workflows team. You’ll build the platform powering workflow automation across our product—from onboarding and access requests to incident response and infrastructure operations.

This is a highly collaborative backend role with ownership and technical influence, focusing on scalable services, event-driven architectures, and AI integration to automate complex business processes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong backend development skills in Go, Python, Java, or a similar language.
• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native applications.
• Strong understanding of asynchronous processing and event-driven architectures.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services that power workflow execution and orchestration.
• Develop reusable workflow components and APIs used across the platform.
• Build reliable, event-driven systems that coordinate long-running business processes.
• Partner with Product and Design to deliver intuitive workflow experiences.
• Help define engineering best practices around scalability, reliability, and observability.

Skills

5+ years experience

Backend development

Go

Python

Java

Distributed systems

APIs

Cloud-native

Asynchronous processing

Startup environment

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Redis

Temporal/Cadence/Camunda/Argo/Airflow/Dagster

AI/LLM apps

Job description

STLabs in New York City is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Workflows team. You’ll build the platform powering workflow automation across our product—from onboarding and access requests to incident response and infrastructure operations.

This is a highly collaborative backend role with ownership and technical influence, focusing on scalable services, event-driven architectures, and AI integration to automate complex business processes.