Agentic Workflows - Backend Engineer (Full stack)
Company: Talent Search PRO
Location: New York City
Posted on: February 21, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Description Job Description We’re looking for a senior,
hands-on software engineer to design, build, and operate
LLM-powered and agentic workflows that support real production use
cases—not research demos. This role sits at the intersection of
backend engineering, applied AI, and production infrastructure .
You’ll work on systems that handle sensitive healthcare data,
integrate AI into user-facing workflows, and run reliably at scale
under strict security and compliance constraints. This is an
individual contributor role with high ownership. You’ll be expected
to make pragmatic technical decisions, collaborate closely with
product and operations, and help shape how AI capabilities are
integrated into the broader platform. What You’ll Be Doing
Designing and operating LLM-powered and agentic workflows
end-to-end Integrating AI capabilities into backend and product
workflows Building and maintaining secure, compliant systems for
sensitive healthcare data Making technical decisions around
security, compliance, cost, performance, and scalability of AI
workloads Implementing monitoring, alerting, and observability for
AI pipelines and production services Collaborating
cross-functionally with engineering, product, and operations teams
Mentoring engineers on backend best practices and applied AI
workflows Must-Haves 5 years of professional software engineering
experience Strong backend and/or full-stack engineering background
from B2B SaaS or product-driven startups Experience deploying
secure, reliable systems on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Demonstrated ability to build and operate production systems , not
just prototypes Comfort working with non-engineers and translating
product requirements into technical solutions Hands-on experience
integrating LLMs into real applications (prompting, orchestration,
evaluations, or agents) This role favors engineers who have owned
AI workflows in production , not candidates coming purely from
research, data science, or director-level roles. Nice-to-Haves 1
year of experience designing AI workflows end-to-end in production
Experience leading AI infrastructure or platform projects at an
early-stage startup Contributions to engineering architecture or
coding standards Experience with containerization and orchestration
( Docker, Kubernetes ) Infrastructure-as-code experience (
Terraform, Pulumi ) Exposure to early-stage product ideation for
AI-enabled features What This Role Is (and Isn’t) A senior IC role
with strong ownership Applied AI backend engineering, focused on
real users and real constraints Startup environment with
cross-functional collaboration Not a director-level or
people-management role Not an AI research or purely scientific role
Not suitable for candidates without hands-on LLM or agentic
workflow experience Not remote-only or relocation-friendly Location
& Work Setup Location: New York City Work model: Hybrid (in office
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday) Relocation: Not available Visa
sponsorship: Available Compensation Base salary: $190,000 –
$250,000 Equity: Offered (details TBD)
Keywords: Talent Search PRO, Toms River , Agentic Workflows - Backend Engineer (Full stack), IT / Software / Systems , New York City, New Jersey
