# Backend Engineer

As a Backend Engineer at Freehand, you will build the distributed systems, APIs, and AI agent infrastructure that power AI-driven enterprise execution. You will design and scale backend services that orchestrate agents, enforce business rules, integrate deeply with ERPs and financial systems, and ensure that every action taken by AI is secure, traceable, and reliable. This is not CRUD SaaS work. You will be building the backend for autonomous systems handling real money and real risk - and the observability and testing infrastructure to keep those systems trustworthy at scale. What You'll Do: High-throughput, low-latency backend services that power AI agent execution Workflow orchestration systems for complex, multi-step enterprise processes Rule engines and policy enforcement layers for enterprise compliance APIs and integrations with ERPs, procurement tools, payment rails, and data providers Observability, audit, and traceability systems for AI-driven decisions Secure data pipelines handling sensitive financial and operational data Agent execution runtimes, multi-agent coordination, and observability pipelines for AI-driven workflows Evaluation and testing harnesses to validate

- **Id**: 3977951
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/freehand-backend-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries**: US, IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 2
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T18:35:35Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T18:35:35Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5963
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Machine Learning, Custom Software Development

## Company

- **Id**: 6041
- **Name**: Freehand
- **Domain**: freehand.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/freehand>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Arize Phoenix** — Optional: yes
- **CrewAI** — Optional: yes
- **Helicone** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes
- **LangSmith** — Optional: yes
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **India** — Iso: IN; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T18:35:35Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 7
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T20:24:12Z

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