Senior Backend Engineer – AI Platform

🕒 August 25

☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $140k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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AZX

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2024

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏗️ Construction

Consulting • Logistics • Construction

AZX is a public benefit corporation delivering AI solutions specifically tailored for the energy, real estate, and supply chain industries. They focus on solving client problems expediently by leveraging innovative strategies and engineering AI-enabled solutions that provide measurable results. With a mission-driven approach, AZX emphasizes creating impact in both organizational efficiency and environmental sustainability.

📋 Description

• Build the backend services that AZX products and client solutions run on • Own the LLM gateway, including routing, metering, budgets, guardrail composition, and provider/backend adapters • Manage the retrieval and knowledge service, including connectors, chunking, hybrid search, reranking, grounded answers, and the MCP surface • Build the evaluation harness for retrieval tuning, confidence intervals, and per-segment breakdowns • Own the async framework, including its public API, rate-limit algorithms, and admin tooling • Lead the evolution of the async framework into durable execution for agent runs • Design authorization across the platform, including token hierarchies, capability grammars, and per-tenant isolation • Define completion standards for shipped work through evaluations, traces, cost accounting, and monitoring dashboards • Support client-facing engineers delivering client outcomes with the platform

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of deep, production async Python • Production experience with cancellation scopes, streaming lifecycle, and connection pooling • Strong PostgreSQL knowledge, including MVCC, advisory locks, and vacuum discipline • Experience with Redis/Dragonfly and distributed systems • Experience shipping API surfaces, including versioning, idempotency, error vocabularies, migration discipline, and documentation • Depth in at least one LLM gateway concern or retrieval engineering, with credibility on the other • Experience shipping evaluation gates or harnesses that caught real regressions • Production depth in a modern technology stack and ability to ramp quickly on unfamiliar tools • Familiarity with Python 3.12+, async, type-strict development, FastAPI/Starlette, Pydantic v2, asyncpg/SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL including pgvector, and Redis/Dragonfly with Lua • Exposure to OpenTelemetry including GenAI conventions, SSE/streaming lifecycles, OpenAI/Anthropic provider APIs, job frameworks, rate-limit algorithms, and integer-cents money handling • Currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis • Must be willing to travel to the Seattle area for the final interview • Past work in energy, real estate, utilities, climate, or related fields is a plus • Experience in both startup and enterprise environments is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive early-stage startup compensation based on capabilities, experience, and location • Bonus eligibility • Health insurance with meaningful coverage for dependents • Flexible paid time off • Equity • Fully remote culture • Travel 2x/year for company summits