Backend Engineer

Agent Application Engineer (Backend / Agentic AI) — Level 1

About Sentiaflow

Sentiaflow is an AI engineering and IT services company that designs and delivers production-grade agentic AI systems. We work at the point where large language models meet real business operations: data, APIs, permissions, workflow state, human decisions, security, evaluation, and measurable outcomes.

Our initial domain focus is healthcare, particularly clinical trials and related operational workflows. These are environments where an impressive demo is not enough. A system must be dependable, traceable, appropriately controlled, and clear about when a human must make the decision.

We are building a specialised engineering organisation across three disciplines:

• Agent Application Engineering
• Agent Platform & Evaluation Engineering
• Applied AI & Model Engineering

The Role

We are hiring strong backend or application engineers who want to specialise in building agentic AI applications. You do not need to arrive with several years of "agent engineer" experience. We are more interested in whether you have built real software, understand how production systems fail, and can learn to use models inside controlled business workflows.

As a Level 1 Agent Application Engineer, you will implement bounded parts of a production workflow under the guidance of an Agent Captain or senior engineer. Your work will connect models to application services, tools, data sources, and human approval points. You will be expected to make every important step observable, testable, and recoverable.

This is not a prompt-writing position, and it is not a generic chatbot role. It is an application engineering role for systems in which some decisions are probabilistic, while the surrounding controls must remain deterministic.

What You Will Work On

The specific client problem will vary, but typical work may include:

• Converting a clinical-operations signal into a bounded workflow that gathers evidence, analyses likely causes, presents options, and routes a recommendation to an authorised person.
• Building services that extract or structure information from trial documents and pass the result through validation and human review.
• Integrating agent workflows with internal APIs, databases, document systems, notification services, and client platforms.
• Implementing workflow state, recovery behaviour, approval gates, permissions, traceability, and scenario-based evaluations.

The work concerns operational decision support and workflow execution. It does not delegate clinical judgment or patient-care decisions to an autonomous model.

What You Will Be Responsible For

• Translate a clearly scoped business workflow into typed inputs, outputs, states, actions, and escalation paths.
• Build reliable application services and tool integrations using Node.js/TypeScript or Python.
• Use an LLM only where model judgment adds value; implement rules, validation, authorisation, and workflow control in deterministic code.
• Design structured model outputs and validate them before they can affect downstream systems.
• Handle partial data, unavailable tools, duplicate events, retries, time-outs, rate limits, and other normal production failure modes.
• Add logging, traces, metrics, and decision records that make the workflow diagnosable.
• Create tests and evaluation cases that measure whether the complete workflow behaves correctly—not merely whether an answer sounds fluent.
• Protect sensitive information and participate in code, design, failure-analysis, and release-readiness reviews.
• Explain your implementation and its trade-offs clearly to engineers, delivery leads, and client stakeholders.

At Level 1, you will not be expected to define the entire client architecture alone. You will be expected to own your assigned module, ask precise questions, surface risks early, and bring it to a production-ready standard with senior review.

What We Are Looking For

Essential Experience

• Approximately 3–6 years of hands-on backend or application engineering experience.
• Evidence that you have built or materially owned production APIs, services, data flows, integrations, or workflow-heavy applications.
• Strong programming ability in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, Go, or a comparable backend language. Our preference is Node.js/TypeScript, but engineering depth matters more than language loyalty.
• Practical understanding of API design, databases, asynchronous processing, authentication and authorisation, testing, and deployment.
• Ability to reason clearly about state, retries, idempotency, concurrency, permissions, audit trails, and failure recovery.
• Experience debugging real production behaviour rather than only building greenfield demonstrations.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical trade-offs without hiding behind framework terminology.

Useful, but Not Mandatory

• Experience integrating LLM or machine-learning capabilities into an application.
• Experience with event-driven systems, state machines, workflow engines, observability, evaluation harnesses, or production incident analysis.
• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, clinical trials, or another regulated or audit-sensitive environment.

Healthcare or clinical-trials experience is preferred, not required at Level 1. We would rather hire a strong production engineer who can learn the domain than a candidate who knows the vocabulary but cannot build dependable systems.

What Does Not Qualify by Itself

Any of the following may be useful experience, but none is sufficient on its own:

• A chatbot or "chat with your documents" application.
• A RAG demonstration built primarily by connecting frameworks.
• A list of AI tools, model names, courses, certificates, or prompt-engineering techniques.
• An application that works in a demo but has no clear handling of permissions, failures, evaluation, or production operations.

How We Will Assess Fit

Our evaluation is designed to identify engineering judgment without asking you to build unpaid project work. We will focus on:

• A structured discussion of a production system you have worked on.
• Questions grounded in your own CV and claimed experience.
• A realistic workflow scenario covering system boundaries, evidence, controls, failure modes, and testing.
• Backend fundamentals and how you would apply them to an AI-enabled workflow.

You are NOT expected to have built a clinical-trials agent before applying.

What Success Looks Like

Within your first six months, you should be able to:

• Implement a bounded agent-workflow module from an agreed design and take responsibility for its quality.
• Integrate models and tools without allowing probabilistic output to bypass deterministic controls.
• Produce traces, tests, and evaluation evidence that support a release decision.
• Diagnose failures across application, tool, data, and model boundaries with progressively less supervision.
• Explain the workflow to a client or domain stakeholder in clear operational language.

Consistent performance at this level creates a path towards Level 2 — Independent Delivery Engineer, where you own a production workflow end to end, including discovery, architecture, integrations, evaluation, failure handling, and release readiness.

Why You Should Join Us

• Build the real systems behind agentic AI. You will work beyond demos and wrappers on the engineering problems that determine whether an AI workflow can operate in production.
• Develop a scarce, durable specialisation. Sentiaflow offers a defined progression across application engineering, platform and evaluation, and applied AI—not a vague instruction to "learn AI."
• Work on consequential operational problems. Clinical-trials workflows demand evidence, traceability, human accountability, and reliable execution.
• Learn through delivery with experienced review. You will own meaningful engineering work while receiving architectural and domain guidance appropriate to your level.
• Influence how the discipline is built. We are at an early stage, so strong engineers will help shape our methods, reusable assets, quality standards, and engineering culture.

We are a dynamic and innovative technology company dedicated to delivering cutting-edge solutions that empower businesses and individuals. As we continue to grow and expand our offerings, we are seeking a coding fanatic, who is interested in working on and learning new technologies. 

Position - Backend developer 

Job type - Freelance or on contract 

Location - Remote 

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Plan,create and test REST APIs for back-end services such as authentication and authorization.
• Deploy and maintain backend systems on the cloud.
• Research and develop solutions for real life business problems.
• Creating and maintaining our apps' essential business logic, providing correct data processing and flawless user experiences.
• Database design, implementation, and management, including schema design, query optimisation and data integrity.
• Participating in code reviews, providing constructive input, and ensuring that code quality standards are met.
• Keep abreast of industry developments and best practices to bring new solutions to our initiatives.

Required skills and experience - 

Must have skills : -

• Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
• 3 + years of experience in backend development.
• Proficient in Python,Mongodb,postgres/sql,Django and Flask
• Knowledge on nginx.
• C++/C +Cython for creating python modules
• Knowledge on Redis
• Familiarity with using AI provider apis and prompt engineering
• Experience in working with linux based instances on the cloud.
• Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or with a group.

Good to have skills :- 

• Experience in node.js and Java 
• AWS and Google cloud knowledge.

What You'll do:

• 4+ years of experience building scalable backends using Nodejs
• In-depth knowledge of any framework of Nodejs (i.e. Express, Hapi, Koa.js)
• Hands on experience with developing REST APIs using Node.js and any of the above framework
• Should have experience with Socket.IO
• Familiar with oauth integration Social Networking API (Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Google+)
• Good understanding of standard authentication systems such as OAuth2 and JWT
• Knowledge of server-side templating (e.g. Jade, Handlebars.js, etc.)
• Should have understanding of model, caching, async mechanisms
• Hands-on experience with implementing Role based User authentication and authorization system
• Understanding of caching, database interactions, middlewares
• Able to engineer the best performing solutions and always keeping scalability in mind

What makes you a great fit:

• Strong problem solving skills
• Knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Hungry for more responsibility and knowledge
• Passion for building robust systems that are engineered to handle failure scenarios, an undying love and attitude for maintaining coding standards
• Strong advocate for producing quality software who makes sure issues are raised and resolved
• Experience with at least one of the cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean etc. (docker, Kubernetes, microservice good to have)

Must have skillsets:

Skills : NodeJs

Experience required: + years

Job Type: Full time/ Permanent

Perks and Benefits :

• 5 days working.
• Flexible shift timings
• Company-sponsored certifications.
• Team friendly culture
• Flat hierarchy
• Carrom, Table tennis games, Cricket Tournament Participation for interested employees
• Snack-filled pantry for team members
• Group Medical Insurance (*)

Ideal candidate must have :

- 2+ years of experience in writing code

- Ability to meet tight deadlines

- Can work independently and be a team contributor

- Must have good knowledge of Node, Python and Scripting languages

- Experience in one or more of RDBMS - PostgreSQL, MySQL or Oracle

- Experience with NoSQL and real-time DB - Firebase/Firestore or MongoDB

- Must be able to write concise and high-quality API

- Must be a quick learner, curious and ambitious  

We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

Responsibilities and Duties
Primary Responsibilities:
- Write Elegant, Testable Code
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Implementation of security and data protection
- Build and Deploy Code
- Build Fast, Reliable REST APIs
- Adding New Features
- Enhancing Existing Code and Features
- Comfortable with Agile and Iterative Development along with code reviews

Job description

Do you want to work with high traffic OLTP and OLAP systems that provide real value to retailers? Want to build real web applications that work across multiple channels and devices? In this critical role, the right candidate should have an entrepreneurial mind-set, have experience working across an application stack and a strong background in developing complex web experiences that are rich, responsive and interactive. The individual should have exhibited good technical leadership skills and be a highly motivated individual.

Role & Responsibility

• Exhibit strong technical knowledge, leadership skills and independent execution.
• A keen eye for good experiences. Understanding the experience from a customer perspective.
• Drive design discussion of complex features and own development of these modules across the application stack.
• Ability to adapt to changing business and product needs.
• Experience evolving the design and operation scale as new features are added to the product
• Mentor junior developers and ensure quality code output (via code reads, reading references, etc.) from them.
• Co-ordinate with internal teams and external partners in ensuring we build the best solution on time for the customer. Constantly looking at ways to innovate and improve the product.
• 8+ years of experience in Java & J2EE based Web Technologies & Frameworks with a focus in either Service Oriented Architecture or APIs. 
• Experience in designing scalable solutions in a large-scale distributed environment.
• Strong knowledge of web technologies, common web frameworks, networking, SQL and database technologies
• Well versed in software engineering principles, frameworks and technologies
• Strong debugging / troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to propose and defend solutions.
• Ability to work closely with product management, customer support, and  other engineering teams to continuously evolve and innovate the enterprise-class Products.