Senior Backend Engineer

Experience: 5+ years production software engineering, with 2+ years working directly on LLM or agent systems in production. 

Location: Remote 

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Why This Role Matters

Terrabase builds agent infrastructure that enterprise customers rely on daily for SQL generation, forecasting, data analysis, and artifact delivery. Our orchestration layer routes between specialized sub-agents, manages typed handoff contracts, runs structured eval suites, and enforces correctness across every turn.

This is not a research-prototype role. You will build and evolve agent architecture, but always in service of making the system observable, typed, evaluated, recoverable, and boringly reliable in production.

What You Will Do

Own the harness architecture and middleware stack. Our LangGraph orchestrator routes between sub-agents through a layered middleware stack: file upload handling, source resolution, local context, workspace sync, state hydration, aggregation barriers, and typed handoff contracts. You will extend this stack, enforce its contracts in code, and keep it operational as routing logic and agent surfaces evolve.

Maintain typed contracts and boundaries. Agent handoffs at Terrabase carry typed contracts with barrier conditions and retry predicates. You will design these contracts, enforce them with strict typing, manage backward compatibility when contracts change, and write the contract tests that prevent silent regressions.

Own the eval suites. We run structured eval suites across routing decisions, context-resolution accuracy, multi-turn coherence, visual reference alignment, and artifact correctness. You will extend coverage, write new evals where gaps exist, and build CI gates that block releases when regressions are detected. A routing change or prompt change with no eval coverage does not ship.

Triage production failures and close the loop. When an agent turn fails in production, you will trace it in LangSmith, identify the failure class, and convert it into a durable regression test. You will own the release gates, keep prompts and runtime contracts in sync, manage feature flag rollout risk, and remove dead paths as the system evolves.

Own SQL and artifact correctness. Our agents generate SQL over customer schemas and produce structured artifacts (reports, dashboards, data sheets) under a strict schema contract. You will own the correctness layer: source grounding, schema-aware validation, provenance surfaces, and the eval infrastructure that catches generated artifact failures before they reach customers.

Build and maintain HITL workflows. Human-in-the-loop checkpoints let users intervene, redirect, or approve mid-chain. You will design these workflows, enforce their resumable state contracts, and ensure they degrade gracefully when interrupted.

Instrument for traceability. You will extend LangSmith tracing coverage, add structured span annotations, and build the tooling that lets us diagnose a bad agent turn from production trace data alone, without requiring a local reproduction.

What We Are Looking For

• 5+ years production software engineering, with strong Python fundamentals
• 2+ years working hands-on with LLM-based systems: agent loops, tool use, context management, or inference pipelines
• Experience with LangGraph, LangChain, OpenAI/Anthropic tool-use systems, or equivalent multi-step agent/runtime orchestration
• Practical eval engineering: you have built or extended eval harnesses, written automated test cases for agent behavior, and treated evaluation as an ongoing engineering discipline
• Strong engineering hygiene: strict typing, small interfaces, contract tests, clear schema migrations, and CI discipline
• Ability to debug from production traces and artifacts, not only local reproductions
• Comfort working across prompts, Python runtime code, TypeScript product surfaces, data systems, and eval infrastructure
• Systems thinking: you design for observability, recovery, and state management, not just the happy path
• Maintenance ownership mindset: you triage, close loops, and leave systems more debuggable than you found them
• Pragmatic judgment: you can distinguish between reliability-critical infrastructure and speculative abstraction

Bonus Points

• HITL workflow design: checkpoints, approvals, mid-chain interrupts, resumable state
• Context engineering depth: chunking strategies, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic routing, re-ranking
• Experience with LangSmith, Weights and Biases, or similar trace and evaluation platforms
• Prior work shipping agent systems to enterprise customers where SQL or data correctness is a hard requirement
• Experience with mypy, Pydantic contracts, or strict typing disciplines in a production Python codebase

Life at Terrabase

We are a sharp, focused, fully remote team building agent infrastructure that enterprise customers trust with their data. You will work directly alongside the engineer who designed this harness, with broad ownership, generous compute budgets, and a culture that treats reliability as a product requirement, not a research topic.

Terrabase is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive environment for every team member.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Backend Developer with strong expertise in Node.js and AWS to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have solid backend development experience, with additional working knowledge of PHP and Python. Exposure to frontend frameworks like React.js and Angular will be considered a strong advantage.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs using Node.js.

• Deploy, manage, and optimize applications on AWS cloud infrastructure.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (frontend, product, QA) to deliver end-to-end solutions.

• Ensure application performance, security, and scalability.

• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following industry best practices.

• Work with databases (SQL/NoSQL) to design efficient data models and queries.

• Integrate third-party services and APIs when required.

• Contribute to code reviews, technical discussions, and mentoring of junior developers.

• Support continuous integration and deployment pipelines.

• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize existing applications.

Requirements

• 4+ years of backend development experience.

• Strong expertise in Node.js and hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.).

• Good working knowledge of PHP and Python.

• Strong understanding of RESTful API design, microservices architecture, and databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB).

• Working knowledge of React.js and Angular is preferred.

JD:

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of software modules owned by a team. You will guide and mentor junior team members by reviewing their code and designs to ensure that they are writing well designed and high quality code. This role requires excellent communication skills as you will need to collaborate across teams. 

Key Skills:

• 3 to 6 years of experience
• Extensive experience on C/C++/Python
• Experience on OS - Unix/Linux and Windows
• Hands on experience in Networking and Multi-threading

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in Cloud Technologies, system programming is a plus

Roles and responsibilities:

• Play key role in design/development of security product. 
• Responsible for the complete software development cycle.
• Gathering & understanding requirements.
• Design, development & implementation independently.
• Responsible for ensuring timely and quality delivery.
• Will be able to work in end to end features. 

Qualification:

• B.Tech / B.E / M.E./ M.Tech (Computer Science) or equivalent.

⌛️ Where will you spend your time?

• Early-stage AI SaaS product with the potential to disrupt the Product Analytics space
• Relentlessly improving performance, scalability, and maintainability on top of being responsible for entire products
• Owning the design process, implementation, and verification of framework components leveraging standard software engineering methodologies
• Translating functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design.

🤝 What makes you a good fit?

• 0-2 years of experience in product development, architecture, data structures, algorithms and design.
• Experience with API integrations, database design, and backend frameworks on NodeJS and/or Python
• Experienced with an agile team environment and you prefer being a self-starter.

👀 What process do we follow?

• The whole process is designed so that it can wrap within 2 weeks
• Application: We will keep it simple. You can apply directly through this link. All we ask for is a Resume and a couple of lines around the motivation for the position you are applying for. Additional Portfolio links such as Github, Medium or a Personal website are welcome but not mandatory.
• Screening: We will screen your profile and get back with a decision within 72 working hours.
• Interviews: We will have 3 rounds of technical interviews and 2 rounds of cultural fitment interviews.
• Offer Rollout: If all looks well, we will pop a bottle of champagne.

❤️ Well Being, compensation and how we behave when no one is watching?

We care about your well-being. Along with excellent health insurance, we offer flexibility to work how you want to. We push for physical well-being and in addition to internal health sessions, you get a complimentary annual gym membership.

We assign dedicated work hours exclusively to learning & development initiatives. We respect your weekends and in terms of work hours, we believe in deliverables over anything else. We regularly host team-building sessions, off-sites and encourage discussions around mental well-being and physical well-being over everything else. Most importantly, when our chips are down, we behave the way a family would.

We admire talent and believe in rewarding people for their input. We understand that compensation is an important factor. Our compensation will be respectful to your situation, and the whole process will be transparent from the very minute we speak to you.

Most of us have grown up in a meritocratic culture where actions speak louder. We grew up saying yes to a lot of things outside of our comfort zone and we want to maintain the same without any compromise. When actions speak, we love to celebrate and amplify bold moves. We don’t have answers to a lot of questions and when we falter, we will acknowledge our missteps. There are no closed doors in the way we work. At the end of the day, we are human beings and we will ensure that you can proudly call Crunchit your home.

🍰 What gives you brownie points?

You demonstrate learnability. The founders have spent their years building things mostly independently and at times relying on the collective hive mind of peers. If you are willing to learn and dare to say yes to things that lie out of your comfort zone, you’ll love the growth and transformation.

🏡 Where will you work from?

We are operating out of Central Indiranagar, Bangalore. We are firm believers in "when we sit together on a table, we move mountains". So you will be required to come to our office [WFO], which we have designed with a lot of love and affection :)

Requirements:

• Should be a go-getter, ready to shoulder more responsibilities, and shows enthusiasm and interest in work.

• Excellent core Python skills including threading, dictionary, OOPS Concept, Data structure, and Web service.

• Should have work experience on the following stacks/libraries: Flask

• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries

• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system

• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as Angular, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code

• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications

• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance

• Experience in both RDBMS(MySQL), NoSQL databases (MongoDB, HDFS, HIVE etc) or in-memory caching technologies such as ehcache etc is preferable.

• Work with stakeholders and fellow developers.
• Design and implement Python code using the Django framework.
• Identify and fix bottlenecks that may arise from inefficient code.
• Identify and fix software bugs.
• Create a wide variety of unit tests to verify the functionality of software.
• Manage the security of the platform.
• Write detailed documentation around the code.
• Knowledge of front end languages.

Biddano  is seeking for an analytical, result driven, multi-skilled candidate  for design for the position of Backend Developer. He/She will be responsible for  programming languages and tools to analyze current codes and industry developments, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems and create a more seamless experience for users.

 The ideal candidate will have strong personal accountability for results, strong commitment to teamwork in support of the company's success, adherence to ethical business practices, and comfort operating in a start-up environment with an ability to prioritize and drive actions to closure.

a start-up environment with an ability to prioritize and drive actions to closure.

Backend Developer

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional REST APIs Using Django/Python or NodeJs
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Perform unit test cases to optimize performance
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features
• Follow emerging technologies

Skills Required:

• Proven work experience as a Back-end developer
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
• Hands on experience with programming languages like Python (Required), typescript(Required),  Java.
• Working knowledge of CMS framework
• Familiarity with back-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript and CSS)
• Excellent analytical and time management skills
• Backend:
• Django/DjangoREST, Python (Prefered) or NodeJs. 
• Good experience of microservices. 
• Hosting and Deployment Solutions:
• Good understanding of AWS which includes(All required):
• Good expertise in Linux.
• EC2 instance management.
• Scalability (Horizontal or Vertical) which includes autoscaling.
• Proper use of S3 for static file management. 
• SNS or AWS email service.
• AWS resource cost optimization. 
• Proper knowledge of Load Balancers.
• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude

Experience :

• Minimum 4-7 years of  experience as a Backend Developer 
• B.tech Computer Science, Engineering or similar relevant field