Python Backend Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Python Backend Engineer (Backend & Agent Engineer – AI/Agentic Automation)
• Domain: Healthcare / Medicaid
• Work mode: Hybrid (Dallas, TX or Dublin, OH)

Description

Build scalable Python backend services and REST APIs for Medicaid R2R processes, and develop AI/agentic workflows to support reconciliation, exception investigation, variance analysis, and close processes. You will orchestrate AI agents with state management, tool/function calling, retries, checkpoints, and failure recovery while integrating governed enterprise data sources. The work emphasizes human-in-the-loop approvals, prompt engineering with grounded/evidence-backed outputs, and production-readiness (observability, security, testing, and CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Develop Python backend services, REST APIs, and integration components
• Build and orchestrate AI agents for reconciliation, exception investigation, variance analysis, and close processes
• Implement agent state, routing, tool/function calling, retries, checkpoints, and failure recovery
• Integrate agents with enterprise data, SQL, APIs, rules engines, and governed tools
• Implement human-in-the-loop review and approval workflows
• Develop prompts and produce structured, evidence-backed agent responses
• Build automated unit, API, integration, regression, and agent-evaluation tests
• Implement logging, tracing, monitoring, security, and production-readiness controls
• Support CI/CD, deployment, configuration, and operational troubleshooting

Requirements

• Strong Python and SQL
• FastAPI or equivalent Python API framework
• Experience with REST APIs and microservices
• AI/LLM and agentic AI concepts
• Agent orchestration and state management
• Prompt engineering and tool/function calling
• RAG and enterprise data integration
• Workflow orchestration and exception handling
• Automated testing and CI/CD
• Observability (logging, telemetry, tracing) and security/secure API design
• IAM/RBAC, secrets management, encryption, and secure API design
• Healthcare/Medicaid R2R familiarity, including relevant transactions and HIPAA security requirements

Benefits

• Hybrid work in Dallas, TX or Dublin, OH
• Opportunity to build secure, scalable, observable, production-ready agentic solutions for Medicaid finance workflows
• Work combining deterministic business rules with LLM-driven reasoning in a governed healthcare domain