Senior Backend Software Engineer – Agentic AI Workflows (Go/AWS)

Chicago, IL · 1 month ago

$80 to $100 a hour

About the job

About the role Most backend roles touching “AI” mean a chatbot bolted onto a CRUD app. This one is different: the agentic workflows are the product surface. You’ll work on an established enterprise asset-and-metadata platform, building the AI engine that proposes metadata across the active project estate, the automated logic that reassigns or retires ownerless systems, and a live inventory of every agent and MCP server running across production and endpoint environments — all exposed through the platform API. It’s Go on AWS, against a real production codebase with real users. A large part of the job is reading code you didn’t write, understanding how it behaves, and then extending...