Senior Backend / Product Engineer (AI Platform)

Role Overview

Senior Backend / Product Engineer for an AI-powered cost intelligence platform. This is an explicitly product-focused role with high autonomy, significant ownership, and direct access to product leadership. You will not be pulled into client delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build backend-heavy platform features for the AI-powered FinOps platform
• Productionalize AI-enabled capabilities (anomaly detection, recommendations, agent-based workflows)
• Implement AI thoughtfully across the entire SDLC: prototyping, testing, iteration, and deployment
• Collaborate closely with Product to turn vision into shipped features
• Identify blockers early, communicate clearly, and iterate fast
• Help shape engineering standards and patterns as the product matures
• Design systems that support model evaluation, prompt/version management, and deterministic fallbacks
• Build AI features with explicit evaluation criteria, feedback loops, and guardrails (accuracy, latency, cost, explainability)

Success Metrics (First 6-12 Months)

• 2+ production-ready features shipped
• Tangible progress towards operating as a smart intelligence platform
• Clear, repeatable engineering patterns for AI-enabled development

Required Experience

• 5+ years professional software engineering experience
• Strong backend engineering background (full-stack a plus, not required)
• Hands-on experience building on AWS
• Strong proficiency in Python (Java/C++ acceptable as secondary languages)
• Demonstrated experience using AI in real production systems (not just experimentation)
• Comfortable working in ambiguity with product-led direction
• Ability to architect backend services supporting asynchronous workflows, event-driven pipelines, and AI agents
• Ability to articulate trade-offs around latency, explainability, data availability, and long-term maintainability

What We're Looking For

Engineers who can tell compelling stories about product journeys, explain architectural decisions, and balance innovation with pragmatism. We value how you think and build, not just tools you've used.