AI Integrated Backend Engineer (Chennai)

AI Integrated Backend Engineer (Chennai)

Company: Money Forward

Job Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience Required: 7+ years

Role & responsibilities

We are building an AI Agent platform that enables product teams to build, operate, and scale AI-powered agents across our ERP ecosystem.

Our team focuses on building the platform infrastructure frameworks, SDKs, runtime systems, and tooling that allow multiple teams to safely develop and deploy AI agents in production.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy building platforms used by other engineers, solving distributed systems challenges, and shaping how AI capabilities scale across a large SaaS ecosystem.

Preferred candidate profile

7+ years of software engineering experience building and operating web applications

Strong backend (Java or Golang) and platform engineering experience (APIs, microservices, distributed systems)

Experience building platforms, internal tools, SDKs, or infrastructure used by other teams

Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Kubernetes manifests)

Strong API design skills (REST/streaming) with focus on developer experience and reliability

Experience integrating LLM APIs (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, etc.) into production systems

Ability to solve problems end-to-end from design through production rollout with robust problem-solving and decision-making

Product mindset that shows proven ability to translate high-level product requirements into clear, detailed technical solutions through close collaboration with Product Managers.

Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to technical design discussions

Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity

Preferred Skills and Experience

Understanding of AI agent patterns (tool use, function calling, memory, multi-turn conversations, guardrails)

Experience building multi-tenant SaaS platforms or developer platforms

Familiarity with observability tools (Datadog, logging, tracing)

Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and automated infrastructure workflows

Comfortable working cross-team with product, security, and other engineering teams .