Senior AI Engineer
Job Summary
As a Senior AI Engineer at Troopers, you will lead the design of AI agents and automation systems to enhance the hiring process. You will work closely with product and operations to build reliable backend services, ensure safe agent tools, and scale automation from pilot to rollout. Additionally, you will set engineering standards and help mentor the team.
Responsibilities
- Build AI agents and automation for the hiring flow
- Develop reliable, event-driven backend services
- Own the architecture and safety of agent workflows
- Set engineering standards and mentor the team
Required Skills
- 5+ years in TypeScript or Node.js backend development
- Experience with agentic coding tools like Claude Code
- Strong SQL, queues, and event-driven systems experience
- Shipped LLM or AI agent features to production
- Proficient with AWS and Docker
Job Details
Key Responsibilities :
- Build AI agents and automation across the hiring flow: matching candidates, sending offers, filling and refilling shifts
- Build reliable, event-driven services across our backend and web apps that act on live hiring data
- Give agents safe tools, measure them with evaluations and tracing, and keep model costs in check
- Take automation from pilot to rollout, using real data to find gaps and report results
- Own the architecture of our agent workflows, with the right checks and safeguards built in
- Set engineering standards, mentor the team and help everyone get the most from agentic coding tools like Claude Code
Requirements Qualifications :
- 5+ years building backend services in TypeScript or Node.js
- Uses agentic coding tools such as Claude Code every day, and knows how to steer, review and test what they produce
- Strong SQL and production experience with queues or event-driven systems, including concurrency, retries and idempotency
- Has shipped LLM or AI agent features to production while keeping personal data out of prompts
- Comfortable with AWS and Docker
- Writes tests as a habit, explains trade-offs clearly and works well with product and operations teams
- Nice to have: Experience in Marketplace, scheduling or optimisation problems
- Python, React or Vue
- LLM evaluation, observability or vision models
- Experience leading engineers