Senior Software Engineer - Python / Agentic Platforms & Development

Role: Senior Software Engineer – Python / Agentic Platforms & Development

Location: Pittsburgh, PA | North Shore area

Work Model: hybrid, 2 days/week on-site

About eNGINE

eNGINE builds Technical Teams. We are a Solutions and Placement firm shaped by decades of interaction with Technical professionals. Our inspiration is continuous learning and engagement with the markets we serve, the talent we represent, and the teams we build. Our Consulting Workforce is encouraged to enjoy career fulfillment in the form of challenging projects, schedule flexibility, and paid training/certifications. Successful outcomes start and finish with eNGINE.

Role Overview

eNGINE is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with deep Python development experience and a strong background in building AI-driven, agentic platforms and services.

This is an opportunity to help shape the next generation of software engineering by developing intelligent systems that leverage AI agents, automation, and modern application architectures.

You'll take ownership of a critical business domain, designing and building backend services, APIs, integrations, and the agentic capabilities that will increasingly power how software is developed and delivered.

The focus goes beyond simply incorporating AI tools into an existing development workflow. You'll help build the underlying agents, skills, instructions, context, and integrations that enable AI systems to perform meaningful engineering tasks, interact with services, and support complex business processes.

You'll serve as a technical authority within your domain, combining hands-on software development with architectural decision-making, cross-team collaboration, and the practical implementation of agentic development practices. This includes leveraging tools such as Claude Code and Cursor, developing reusable agent capabilities, and establishing approaches for specification-driven development, agent delegation, and validation.

The ideal candidate is an experienced engineer who understands how to build reliable production software and is actively applying AI and agentic technologies to change how software platforms and services are designed, built, and operated.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and integrations primarily using Python, with React development as needed.
• Build and evolve agentic platforms and services that leverage AI agents to automate workflows, coordinate tasks, and interact with enterprise applications and systems.
• Develop and maintain AI agent instructions, reusable skills, contextual knowledge, rules, and MCP integrations that enable intelligent automation and more effective engineering workflows.
• Implement agentic software development practices, including specification-driven development, delegating implementation to AI agents, and validating agent-generated code and solutions.
• Own a defined business domain end to end, including its services, data, integrations, architecture, and ongoing technical direction.
• Become the subject matter expert for your domain, understanding the underlying business processes and translating operational needs into effective technical solutions.
• Design and support system integrations, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, and relational database solutions.
• Partner with Product, Operations, and engineering teams to identify opportunities for automation, improve business processes, and develop solutions that address real-world challenges.
• Provide technical guidance through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural decisions that impact your domain and surrounding services.
• Establish reusable patterns, tools, and documentation that help other engineers effectively leverage AI agents and modern development practices.
• Improve system reliability, performance, data quality, and maintainability across production services.
• Continuously evaluate emerging AI and agentic technologies and identify opportunities to incorporate them into the platform and engineering organization.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant hands-on backend development experience using Python or a comparable programming language.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and supporting complex production applications and services.
• Hands-on experience building or extending agentic development capabilities using tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or comparable AI agent frameworks and platforms.
• Understanding of how to develop and configure AI agents, including agent instructions, reusable skills, contextual knowledge, tool integrations, and MCP.
• Experience implementing AI-assisted or agentic development workflows, including specification-driven development, task delegation, and validation of AI-generated implementations.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, system integrations, event-driven architecture, and relational databases such as SQL Server.
• Experience owning a technical domain or complex application environment and serving as a subject matter expert for its architecture and ongoing development.
• Ability to evaluate business problems, ask the right questions, and translate requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Experience providing technical direction, reviewing designs and code, and helping other engineers succeed.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document technical knowledge and create reusable engineering resources.

Preferred Experience

• Experience building LLM-powered applications, agentic workflows, multi-agent systems, or AI-driven automation services.
• Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP), agent orchestration, tool calling, and integrations with external services.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, Azure Service Bus, Databricks, or Datadog.
• Experience with React and modern frontend development.
• Experience working in healthcare technology, particularly specialty pharmacy, pharmacy benefit management (PBM), payer systems, claims processing, or EDI integrations.
• Familiarity with healthcare data privacy, HIPAA, HITRUST, or SOC 2 compliance requirements.

Next Steps

No C2C, relocation, recruiter represented referral candidates, or sponsorship for this role. For finer details on how eNGINE can impact your career, apply today!