Tekion - Senior Software Developer - Backend Technologies

Role : Senior Software Engineer Location : BangaloreJob Description : 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. (ref:hirist.tech)