AI Native Backend Engineer

About This Role

We are seeking an AI-Native Backend Engineer to join a client team at Alation via TalentXO. You will own business-critical components powering key customer use cases, leveraging Core Java and modern AI tools (Copilot, Cursor) for high-velocity delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement moderately complex features with minimal supervision.
• Actively utilize AI coding assistants to scaffold code, write tests, debug, and reduce boilerplate while maintaining strict security standards.
• Contribute to system architecture discussions and own production services handling millions of daily events.

Ideal Candidate

You must have 2+ years of strong Core Java experience in a product company environment. Fluency with AI tools is mandatory, as well as hands-on building deployed AI/LLM features (RAG, scoring). You will work on scalable microservices and integrate directly with databases using JDBC.