Senior Backend Engineer, Agentic Workflows – Hybrid

Simple Solutions • New York, NY

1d • $190 - $230 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Torch, you’ll play a key role in evolving our platform’s architecture, building high-performance distributed systems, and developing agentic workflows that power our next generation of AI-enabled product experiences. You’ll design the backend systems that support LLM-powered features at scale - whether that means orchestrating web or voice agents to fetch data, building reliable workflows and safeguards for ingestion and normalization, or ensuring everything operates securely and compliantly. • Good balance of startup excitement (ownership, lean team) and stability/calmness. • Engaged customer base for AI/LLM experimentation and production implementation.

Requirements

• minimum of 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and deploying secure, compliant workloads.
• Demonstrated record of building scalable, secure, and reliable systems.
• Comfortable collaborating with non-engineers, including product managers, designers, and business stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading AI infrastructure projects end-to-end in a startup environment
• Contributed to architecture or coding standards for engineering teams.
• Experience in early-stage product ideation and design for AI-enabled features.
• Hands-on experience with containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Pulumi) for provisioning and managing cloud resources.

Responsibilities

• Design, integrate, and operate LLM-powered and agentic workflows for claims data.
• Build and maintain HIPAA-compliant systems for sensitive healthcare data.
• Lead decisions around security, compliance, cost, performance, and scaling of AI workloads.
• Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and observability systems for AI pipelines and production modules.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and operations teams to integrate AI capabilities into Torch’s platform.
• Mentor and guide other engineers on best practices on both backend engineering and agentic workflows.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed