# Lead Backend Engineer (Node.js)

About the Role This role blends remote work with in-person collaboration at our Cherkasy office. At iForAI, we help companies put AI into real products. Our team builds and integrates AI systems: copilots, agent platforms, retrieval-backed assistants, and document and workflow automation, working side by side with customer teams. We’re hiring a Lead Backend Engineer to help drive that work. This is a hands-on role. You’ll guide a small backend team of 2 to 4 engineers, own backend architecture across services, and build the systems that put LLMs and agents into production workflows. AI is changing how engineering teams work. The leverage today isn’t in typing code; it’s in clear specification, good judgment, and careful verification. If you have a strong backend background and you’re curious about working with AI day to day, we’ll bring you up to speed to the agentic coding by using AI. Responsibilities Lead and mentor a small backend team (2 to 4 engineers). Own backend architecture and AI integrations: prompt and context handling, retrieval, orchestration, tool/function calling, evaluation, and observability. Design and run reliable backend services that support real prod

- **Id**: 3815520
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/iforai-lead-backend-engineer-node-js>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cherkasy, Ukraine
- **Countries**: UA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T12:25:39Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T12:25:39Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4464
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Consulting & Integration

## Company

- **Id**: 4486744
- **Name**: iForAI
- **Domain**: ifor.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/iforai>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Fastify** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Nest.JS** — Optional: no
- **Next.js** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Agile** — Optional: yes
- **Angular** — Optional: yes
- **Anthropic** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **CrewAI** — Optional: yes
- **Django** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **FastAPI** — Optional: yes
- **Flask** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes
- **LangGraph** — Optional: yes
- **LlamaIndex** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **n8n** — Optional: yes
- **OpenAI** — Optional: yes
- **pgvector** — Optional: yes
- **Pinecone** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **Prisma** — Optional: yes
- **Pulumi** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Qdrant** — Optional: yes
- **RAG** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes
- **Redis** — Optional: yes
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes
- **TypeORM** — Optional: yes
- **Vue.js** — Optional: yes
- **Weaviate** — Optional: yes
- **Zapier** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Ukraine** — Iso: UA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T15:42:51Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: seen:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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