
Founding Backend AI Engineer
at VC Funded AI Startup- Building AI for Enterprise Automation
About the Company:
A well-funded AI startup is building enterprise-grade Agentic AI infrastructure that enables autonomous systems to safely execute complex workflows across enterprise environments.
The company is building its founding engineering team and offers the opportunity to work directly with experienced founders on cutting-edge AI products.
Role Overview:
We're looking for an experienced engineer who has built production-grade AI Agents or Agentic AI systems.
You'll design and build the core infrastructure that powers autonomous AI agents, including reasoning, planning, tool execution, memory, orchestration, evaluation, and reliability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and build production-ready AI agent infrastructure.
- Develop agent orchestration, planning, routing, and memory systems.
- Build guardrails, validation, retries, rollback, and failure recovery mechanisms.
- Develop evaluation, tracing, and observability frameworks for AI agents.
- Integrate AI agents with enterprise platforms and APIs.
- Own AI platform architecture from design through production deployment.
Required Skills:
- 6–10 years of software engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience building production AI Agents.
- Strong understanding of LLMs, Agentic AI, and AI orchestration.
- Experience with LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or similar agent frameworks.
- Strong backend engineering and distributed systems experience.
- Experience with Python, Node.js, or TypeScript.
- Knowledge of RAG, multi-agent systems, planning agents, and tool calling.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, and Docker.
- Strong engineering ownership and problem-solving ability.
Good to Have:
- LLM evaluation frameworks.
- AI observability and tracing.
- Workflow engines and state machines.
- Terraform.
- Microsoft Graph / Microsoft 365 integrations.

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Who you are:
- You have an overall software development experience of 4 to 10 years
- 3+ years proficiency in Java and Spring boot
- Familiar with distributed computing and frameworks such as gRPC/ protobuf
- Understands JVM metrics, Garbage collection and performance tuning
- Experience in creating high-level design(HLD) and low-level design(LLD)
- You have a good understanding of relational database, NoSQL technologies, and REST
- Good to have experience in HTML, JavaScript, GraphQL, TypeScript, ReactJS and related toolsets
- Exposure to AWS stack/cloud computing
- Self-motivated developer who takes ownership of work
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computing related discipline
- Experience in Product Development Environment is a plus.
• Solid experience with application frameworks such as Springboot and strong familiarty with micro services architecture and design patterns
• Familiarity with databases like MySQL, MongoDB, Redis etc
• Hands-on experience in analysis, design, coding, and implementation of complex, custom-built applications
• Exposure to CI/CD using Gitlab, Jenkins preferred
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, EFK Stack is highly desired
• Broad knowledge of web standards relating to APIs (OAuth, SSL etc.)
• Exposure to product development.
• Understand Architecture Requirements and ensure effective design, development and maintenance of multiple micro services in Java Springboot deployed in cloud within containers consuming data present in relational as well as NoSQL databases.
o The microservices shall expose APIs which allow ease of integration with variety of client apps
o Microservices should handle a scale of thousands of requests per second
• Develop communication patterns between microservices which are efficient, lightweight and secured using Kafka
• Debugging issues on a live setup
• Lead a small team of engineers
• Create test cases and technical documentation
• Maintain a high level of code quality and consistency by adhering to and enhancing the coding standards, design methodology and programming practices
Must Haves
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
- 4+ years’ work experience in software development
- BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
- Understanding of operating system fundamentals (Linux)
- Understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures, and algorithms
- Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong analytical skills, with excellent problem solving abilities
- Working experience with Kubernetes
- Experienced working with distributed databases at scale
Good to haves
- Experience in developing software using AWS native services & technologies.
- Experience taking a lead role in building and operating scalable distributed systems
- Experience in Agile/SCRUM enterprise-scale software development
- Familiar with building secure software using modern security principles
- Demonstrated ability to achieve goals in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment
Why us
We're hiring a set of highly skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate people who thrive in a high-growth environment. We believe the best way to grow is to give everyone the opportunity to pursue their interests. At Lucidity, you have complete freedom to work on projects that interest you. Plus, with benefits like flexible hours, company offsites, unlimited leaves, we ensure you enjoy the journey as much as we do. We are also offering healthy founding team ESOP's.
We are looking for a highly motivated developer with at least 1+ years of strong hands-on experience in Java to join our startup. You would be playing a pivotal role in contributing to the initial tech stack. You would be further responsible for designing and implementing product requirements that are highly usable, scalable, extensible, and maintainable. You should be comfortable working across different technologies/frameworks that we work on - Microservices, Java, Spring, Spring Boot, MySQL, Kubernetes, AWS.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Design and build scalable REST APIs on Spring Boot
- Develop, test, tune for performance and deploy microservices
- Collaborate with the team, optimize and refactor the back-end architecture
- Maintain high standards of quality for code, documentation and other deliverables
- Active cross-team coordination would be expected
What are we looking for?
- 1+ year experience in Core Java & backend technologies
- Good working knowledge of design patterns & OOAD
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- The skills that we consider: Java, MySQL/RDS, Spring/ Play, Maven, Redis, Kafka/SQS, Elasticsearch, AWS
- Experience in micro-services
- Previously worked in a startup








