Senior Backend Engineer - AI Security & Integrations

Hardshell Inc.; Charlottesville (VA); Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health coverage

Job summary

Hardshell Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer to join a small team building production-grade backend systems for enterprise customers. You will own customer-facing applications and APIs, and you will integrate with AI platforms, vector stores, SharePoint/Drive, identity providers, and observability stacks.

Your work will include self-hosted and on-prem deployments. You will collaborate closely with founding engineers, set engineering practices, and own features end to end—from design

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production software for enterprise customers.
• Strong backend and API design and cross-stack work as needed.
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs and enterprise systems.
• Clear written communication and ability to work with customer engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the customer-facing applications and APIs used to run exposure tests and manage data hardening.
• Build integrations into customer data systems: AI platforms, vector stores, SharePoint/Drive, identity providers, observability stacks.
• Turn research methods into production-grade software, including self-hosted/on-prem deployments.
• Own features end to end from design to release and production support with pilot customers.
• Contribute to engineering practices, including code review, testing, and release processes.

Skills

Backend/API design

Containerized deployments

Enterprise systems integration

Clear written communication

U.S. citizenship

Job description

Hardshell Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer to join a small team building production-grade backend systems for enterprise customers. You will own customer-facing applications and APIs, and you will integrate with AI platforms, vector stores, SharePoint/Drive, identity providers, and observability stacks.

Your work will include self-hosted and on-prem deployments. You will collaborate closely with founding engineers, set engineering practices, and own features end to end—from design