{"id":743328,"url":"https://alion.io/job/artian-software-engineer-backend","title":"Software Engineer - Backend","company":{"id":669537,"name":"Artian","domain":"artian.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/artian","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":8,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["New York, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":125000,"max":150000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":150000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-05-12T01:49:59Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-05-12","last_verified_at":"2026-09-28T16:04:21Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":139,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":139},"description":"About Artian\nArtian AI is building agentic AI automation for financial services. Our platform enables reliable, autonomous AI agents to execute business-critical workflows across regulated enterprise environments.\nWe are an in-person team in New York, building at the intersection of AI, enterprise software, workflow automation, and financial services. We move with urgency, take ownership, communicate transparently, and care deeply about doing excellent work. We are looking for people who are grounded under pressure, learn quickly, earn trust with teammates and customers, and want to help define how AI agents are deployed safely and effectively in the enterprise.\nAbout the Role\nArtian AI is looking for a Software Engineer - Backend to help build the platform infrastructure behind our agentic AI automation product. You will work on the services, APIs, data models, orchestration systems, integrations, and reliability foundations that enable AI agents to operate inside enterprise financial-services environments.\nThis role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys building production software, cares about reliability and clean abstractions, and wants to work closely with AI, product, and customer-facing teams to ship meaningful functionality quickly.\nWhat You’ll Do\nBuild backend services, APIs, workflows, and platform primitives for Artian’s AI automation platform.\n\nDesign systems for orchestration, state management, permissions, observability, and integration with enterprise systems.\n\nWork closely with AI/ML engineers to expose model and agent capabilities through robust production services.\n\nBuild secure, scalable data flows across customer workflows and internal platform components.\n\nImprove platform reliability, performance, testing, deployment, and developer velocity.\n\nCollaborate with product and solutions engineering to turn customer requirements into reusable platform capabilities.\n\nDebug and resolve issues across the stack in a fast-moving production environment.\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\nStrong Python engineering skills and experience building backend systems in production.\n\nExperience designing APIs, services, data models, queues, jobs, workflow engines, or distributed systems.\n\nFamiliarity with databases, cloud infrastructure, observability, testing, and deployment practices.\n\nAbility to write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.\n\nStrong product sense and an interest in building systems that customers rely on.\n\nHigh ownership, clear communication, and comfort operating in ambiguity.\n\nNice to Have\nBS in Computer Science or a closely related engineering discipline, or equivalent industry experience.\n\nExperience building enterprise SaaS, workflow automation, developer platforms, or data-intensive systems.\n\nExperience integrating with financial-services systems, document systems, CRMs, ERPs, or other enterprise tools.\n\nExperience with AI/ML platforms, LLM applications, or agent orchestration systems.\n\nExperience in security-conscious or regulated environments.\n\nWhy Join Artian\nBuild the core platform for deploying autonomous agents in real enterprise workflows.\n\nWork closely with AI engineers and customer-facing teams on high-impact product problems.\n\nJoin an in-person New York team with high ownership and direct customer feedback.\n\nHelp define the backend architecture for a new category of enterprise AI software.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3372,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["AI Agents"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-11T13:21:34Z"}],"liveness":{"score":6,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.216,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":139,"expected_fill_days":40,"reasons":["conf:6","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":150000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/artian-software-engineer-backend","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/artian-software-engineer-backend.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-28T23:55:11Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1342,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3658,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-29T00:00:00Z"}}}