Senior Backend Engineer – AI / LLM Products

About this role

Client is looking for someone with strong backend engineering experience, early-stage startup exposure, and hands-on experience building LLM applications or AI agents. Please share the job description with Sridhar and check his interest.

This is a full-time role, remote within the US or Canada with periodic travel to San Francisco or Toronto.

Senior Backend Engineer – AI / LLM Products

Employment:
Full-time

Location:
Remote within the US or Canada, with periodic travel to San Francisco or Toronto

Compensation:
Base salary + meaningful founding-level equity

About the opportunity

Sentra is an early-stage, venture-backed company building an AI organizational memory platform. Its technology captures company knowledge, decisions, and context, helping teams stay aligned as they grow.

We are seeking a senior backend engineer who combines strong technical judgment with a product mindset. The ideal candidate has built customer-facing products at early-stage startups or as a founder and can independently take projects from problem definition through production.

Key responsibilities

• Own customer-facing features from user discovery and scoping through backend development, launch, and iteration.
• Build reliable LLM agents that reason over large, complex enterprise datasets.
• Drive architecture, data modeling, API design, and tooling decisions.
• Translate customer needs into technical solutions with measurable business impact.
• Own complex, high-impact projects with minimal oversight.
• Work directly with the founding team to shape product direction and engineering standards.

Required experience

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience building customer-facing products.
• Experience at high-quality early-stage startups, ideally Series B or earlier, or experience as a founder.
• Strong backend engineering skills, including Python, SQL, distributed systems, and API design.
• Hands-on experience building LLM applications or AI agents...