Senior Software Engineer

Op Recruiting ·www.oprecruiting.com

Location Knoxville, TN, United States
Work type Remote
Salary USD 120,000 - 190,000 / year
Type Full time
Level Senior
Source Shazamme
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Senior Software Engineer

Location: Remote (USA)

About the Opportunity We are seeking a seasoned Senior Engineer to spearhead the evolution of a sophisticated enterprise platform by integrating advanced AI capabilities with robust distributed systems. This is a high-impact role where you will bridge the gap between traditional backend excellence and the frontier of production-grade AI orchestration. You will move beyond simple prototypes to build reliable, high-scale systems that leverage agentic workflows and complex data pipelines to drive tangible business outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • System Ownership: Lead the complete lifecycle of customer-centric features, from initial architectural design and estimation to deployment and ongoing production maintenance.

  • AI Orchestration: Architect and maintain production-level Large Language Model (LLM) integrations, including the development of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and automated agentic workflows with human-in-the-loop safeguards.

  • Reliability & Governance: Implement rigorous evaluation frameworks for mixed deterministic and probabilistic systems, ensuring high standards for observability, security, and behavioral regression testing.

  • Architectural Evolution: Define and enforce strict API contracts and data schemas while strategically modernizing legacy components to enhance system maintainability and development velocity.

  • Engineering Excellence: Champion superior coding standards through the creation of pragmatic abstractions, comprehensive documentation, and a culture of meaningful automated testing.

  • Operational Integrity: Manage model lifecycles and prompt engineering performance, establishing quantitative benchmarks to ensure all AI outputs meet strict acceptance criteria.

Requirements (Must-have)

  • Professional Experience: Typically 7+ years of experience delivering scalable production software in customer-facing environments.

  • Backend Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in C#/.NET or a similar enterprise-grade stack, with a deep understanding of concurrency, performance tuning, and data modeling.

  • Distributed Systems: Proven track record of designing distributed services with a focus on versioning discipline and backward compatibility.

  • Data Expertise: Advanced SQL skills (PostgreSQL or SQL Server), including complex schema design and query optimization.

  • AI Integration: Experience combining traditional code with probabilistic model outputs via validation layers, guardrails, and structured enforcement.

  • Infrastructure: Proficiency in cloud-native environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and containerization strategies.

  • Problem Solving: Exceptional debugging skills with a relentless focus on root cause analysis and sustainable architectural fixes.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-have)

  • Advanced AI Implementation: Experience shipping production-ready RAG pipelines, vector search implementations, and multi-step tool-calling workflows.

  • AI Observability: Familiarity with tracing prompts, monitoring inference costs/latency, and detecting model drift.

  • Regulated Industries: Background building software within frameworks requiring high levels of auditability or regulatory compliance.

  • Frontend Literacy: Competency in TypeScript frameworks (such as React) and a pragmatic approach to end-to-end testing strategies (e.g., Playwright).

  • DevOps Mindset: Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and maturing CI/CD pipelines.

 

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Where is the Senior Software Engineer job located?
The Senior Software Engineer role with Op Recruiting is based in Knoxville, TN, US. The role is remote-friendly.
Is the Senior Software Engineer role remote?
Yes — the Senior Software Engineer position at Op Recruiting is remote. Candidates based in US are preferred.
What does the Senior Software Engineer role pay?
Op Recruiting lists the Senior Software Engineer role at USD 120,000–190,000 per year.
Is the Senior Software Engineer role full-time or contract?
This is a full time position at Op Recruiting.
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The Senior Software Engineer position is aimed at senior-level candidates.
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