Kizen
Senior Backend Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 18 days ago
PythonDjangoPostgreSQLRedisKubernetesRESTLLMsRAGLangGraphPatient CareCommunicationCollaborationTime Management
About the role
- We're putting AI and intelligent automation to real use in the hands of real people.
- We are looking for a hands-on Senior Engineer with a history of focusing on user outcomes and rapidly delivering reliable, scalable systems as we bring our next-gen platform to the world.
- This is an opportunity of a lifetime for someone who wants to be at the heart of the AI movement to better humanity.
Responsibilities
- Work with Engineering leaders to ensure we're building reliable, maintainable software
- Partner with the product team to design feasible features, create consumable tickets, and assess implementation
- Work with the Frontend Engineering Team Lead(s) to ensure the user-facing experience is polished and uses backend features as intended
- We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture that celebrates authenticity to win as one.
Requirements
- Ability to facilitate a task's entire lifecycle, going from product requirements to deployment
- Experience shipping LLM-enabled features in production
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt to a quickly changing environment
- Driven and self-motivated with a track record of finding and solving difficult problems
- Ability to iteratively improve a solution that uses nondeterministic components by using experimental methods
Nice to have
- Experience with Django
- Experience with LangGraph, LiteLLM, or similar
- Working knowledge of at least one evaluation system
- Understanding of Agentic best practices
- Experience implementing MCP Servers/Clients
- Experience with Postgres, Redis, S3, Memcache
- Experience deploying applications with Kubernetes
- Experience implementing RAG
Compensation
- $180,000 - $253,000 USD
- The base salary range for this position is $180,000k - $220,000k.
- OTE - $207,000-$253,000K
Benefits
- Equity Package
- Healthcare Coverage
- In addition to base salary, we also offer generous equity and benefits packages.
Company info
- OTE - $207,000-$253,000K
- Kizen is a leading AI platform for the future of work, redefining how people and AI seamlessly move and improve as one.
- Founded on the principle that technology should make work more meaningful, Kizen creates AI systems (AKA assistants) that learn, adapt, and improve over time, just like the people who use them.
- Today, Kizen powers millions of mission-critical experiences for leading organizations in highly regulated industries like insurance, healthcare, and financial services.
- Some of the ways we support these teams include:
- helping insurance agents manage contracting and commissions, enabling healthcare providers to deliver proactive patient care, and empowering financial institutions to classify documents and extract data automatically.
- We're solving operational problems and helping the world's most complex organizations give their teams the tools they need to do more, grow faster and live better.
- And this is just the beginning!
- Kizen is where enterprises get AI that works on day one and is flexible enough to shape it to their own organizations.
- Our AI-first platform is easy to adopt, scale, and trust making it a destination for developers to build new applications and business teams to customize AI assistants, all in one place.
- Join us in transforming how industries work, one person, one workflow, one AI assistant at a time!
- Kizen, www.kizen.com
- Senior Backend Engineer
- Some of the ways we support these teams include: helping insurance agents manage contracting and commissions, enabling healthcare providers to deliver proactive patient care, and empowering financial institutions to classify documents and extract data automatically.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Visa Sponsorship: Not available for this role
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