Lead Backend Engineer, AI Platform

The Judge Group • United States, United States • Posted July 03, 2026

Position Overview

Our client is currently seeking a Lead Backend Engineer, AI Platform

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain production backend services for a wide variety of internal and external use cases, including product workflows, operational tools, integrations, APIs, and AI-enabled applications 
  • Develop well-structured APIs, domain models, service interfaces, and business logic that are easy to understand, test, operate, and extend 
  • Build scalable backend workflows that support complex business processes across loans, documents, accounts, users, permissions, vendors, and operational decision making 
  • Remain hands-on in critical areas of the codebase, especially where technical direction, architectural leverage, incident resolution, or execution speed requires senior engineering judgment 
  • Lead the design of service architectures that support transactional, operational, analytical, and AI-driven workloads across production enviro...