# Backend Engineer

Senior AI Backend Engineer (Python/FastAPI, Agentic AI & LLM Applications)Job Type: Contract Contract Duration: 6 Months Pay Rate: CAD $90-100/hour (depending on experience and alignment) Location: Hybrid, 1 day onsite weekly, Downtown Toronto, ON Your New CompanyOur client is investing in next-generation AI-powered applications and is expanding its engineering team with experienced contractors who can help design, build, and scale production-grade AI solutions. This is an opportunity to work on innovative Agentic AI initiatives involving Large Language Models (LLMs), cloud-native architectures, API integrations, and modern AI orchestration frameworks. Your New RoleAs a Senior AI Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying production-grade AI applications and backend services. You will build scalable Agentic AI workflows, integrate Large Language Models, and contribute to cloud-native solutions that support enterprise-scale applications.Working closely with engineering leadership and technical teams, you will help architect intelligent systems leveraging modern AI frameworks, retrieval systems, cloud services, and observability tooling. Key

- **Id**: 3958029
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/hays-backend-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Toronto, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-08T00:00:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T00:00:00Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5062
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 1050165
- **Name**: Hays
- **Domain**: hays.ca
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/hays-ca>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary

- **Min**: 90
- **Max**: 100
- **Currency**: CAD
- **Period**: hour
- **Usd annual**: 142000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: no
- **Google Cloud Run** — Optional: yes
- **Google GKE** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes
- **Langfuse** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes
- **Semantic Search** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T09:52:04Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 21
- **Reasons**: seen:1, agency, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T13:54:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 142000
- **Is top pay**: no

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