SDE III - Backend

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The Senior Software Engineer - Backend will join the Digitization and Automation team to design, develop, and implement scalable technology solutions that solve a wide variety of business problems across the organization This role is primarily focused on backend engineering, requiring strong software engineering fundamentals, system design expertise, and complete ownership of business-critical applications. Additionally, this position plays a key role in identifying, designing, and building AI-powered solutions to improve operational efficiency, automation, decision-making, and developer productivity across the organization The ideal candidate combines strong backend engineering experience with practical experience building AI-powered applications, agents, copilots, retrieval systems, and workflow automations. This professional should be proficient in evaluating where AI adds business value, designing appropriate system architectures, and mentoring other engineers on AI-related engineering practices.

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Design, build, and integrate scalable and reliable backend systems based on business and product requirements.
Identify and resolve bottlenecks, bugs, and operational issues.
Drive improvements in scalability, performance, reliability, observability, and cost optimization.
Create prototypes and proof-of-concepts (POCs) for new products, features, and AI initiatives.
Take complete ownership of projects from design through deployment and production support.
Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, QA teams, and other engineering teams.
AI Strategy & Architecture
Lead the establishment and evolution of AI Engineering capabilities, including architecture, tooling, development standards, and best practices.
Define and drive the AI technology stack, ensuring scalable, secure, reliable, and cost-effective adoption of AI across engineering and business workflows.
Architect systems that combine LLMs, retrieval systems, business logic, databases, APIs, and operational tooling.
Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and models, providing technical direction on their adoption and integration within the organization.
Mentor and guide engineers on backend architecture, AI system design, and implementation best practices to foster AI expertise across the team.
Preferred Qualifications (Good to Have)
Experience with messaging systems such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Amazon SQS.
Experience with containerized deployments using Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience building retrieval systems, semantic search, or knowledge assistants.
Familiarity with agent frameworks and orchestration platforms.
Experience integrating AI systems with enterprise applications, operational tooling, or internal platforms.
Experience working with vector databases and embeddings.
Experience building internal developer productivity or operational automation tools.
Exposure to Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar tool integration patterns.
A strong interest in emerging technologies and a commitment to continuous learning and experimentation
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