At Tekion, we are expanding our engineering team and are currently hiring for Senior Software Engineer (Backend) and Staff Software Engineer (Backend) roles. We are looking for candidates with strong hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Native AI technologies for our Backend positions.

We would like to invite you to an exclusive in-person hiring drive on 7th Aug 2026 Friday at our Bangalore office. This drive is designed to offer a fast-tracked interview experience, with the entire process completed within a day for shortlisted candidates.

Role & Responsibilities :

- Design and build production-grade AI platform services, LLM gateways, MCP servers, and agent orchestration frameworks.

- Lead the design and implementation of Tekion's AI gateway, a unified abstraction layer for multi-provider LLM access with intelligent routing, fallback, cost optimization, token budgeting, and comprehensive observability.

- Design and implement MCP (Model Context Protocol) infrastructure.

- Design agentic AI patterns, multi-step reasoning workflows, tool orchestration, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop escalation paths.

- Take end-to-end ownership of critical platform subsystems.

- Solve complex performance bottlenecks across inference and orchestration layers.

- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.

- Communicate and collaborate with management, product, QA, UI/UX, and AI/ML teams.

- Deliver with quality, on time, in a fast-paced start-up environment.

Skills & Qualifications :

- Bachelor/masters in computer science or relevant fields.

- 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience.

- Strong sense of ownership.

- Excellent Java and object-oriented development skills.

- Experience in building and scaling microservices.

- Strong problem-solving skills, technical troubleshooting, and diagnosing.

- Expected to be a role model for young engineers with a strong sense of code quality and enforce code quality within the team.

- Strong knowledge in RDBMS and NoSQL technologies.

- Experience in developing backends for enterprise systems (eCommerce, manufacturing, supply chain, etc.).

- Excellent understanding of debugging, performance, and optimization techniques.

- Experience with Java, MongoDB, MySQL, AWS technologies, ELK stack, Spring Boot, Kafka.

- Experience in developing large-scale cloud-native applications.

- Strong understanding of LLM fundamentals.

- Experience with or strong knowledge of MCP (Model Context Protocol) designing tool schemas, building MCP servers, tool discovery, and integrating MCP into agentic workflows.

- Understanding of AI gateway architecture, multi-provider LLM routing, semantic caching, load balancing, token tracking, cost allocation, fallback chains, and request/response logging.

- Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks, LangChain/LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, or similar orchestration tools.

- Experience with LLM observability and evaluation, tracing (LangSmith, OpenTelemetry), LLM-as-judge evaluation, cost and latency monitoring.

- Understanding of AI safety and guardrails, input/output validation, PII detection, content filtering, and hallucination mitigation.

- Demonstrated ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment.

- Good communication skills.