Senior Software Engineer, AI Applications

About the Role

Nayya is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, AI Applications to help design, build, and scale the core systems that power our next generation of AI-native products. In this role, you will be critical to developing Nayya’s agentic platform to serve millions of employees across their health and wealth management.  You will act as a technical leader and AI business partner, translating ambiguous needs into durable, production-grade AI-native workflows that provide clarity for employees  and hundreds of hours of savings for our partners.

What You’ll Do

• Develop AI-native features by building and integrating LLM-powered systems for extracting, structuring, and reasoning over complex healthcare and benefits data
• Build against AI infrastructure, including retrieval pipelines (RAG), embeddings, prompt orchestration, and internal agent frameworks
• Own end-to-end systems from design, application development, AI integrations and final product delivery.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design and other functions to understand customer workflows and translate them into technical solutions
• ​​Implement evaluation pipelines and benchmarking strategies to measure LLM performance, and design guardrails that enforce safety, accuracy, and compliance thresholds across AI-powered features

Who You Are

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating complex applications in production
• Experienced integrating AI/LLM-powered systems (e.g., OpenAI, Claude) into real products
• Strong proficiency with modern, object-oriented languages and frameworks (Typescript, Ruby etc)
• Comfortable completely owning backend systems and APIs and collaborating on frontend experiences
• Experience with AWS infrastructure or equivalent
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and monitoring tools
• Opinionated,  adaptable, and energized by working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
• Have a track record of setting technical direction and influencing engineering standards across a team
• Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders

The salary range for New York based candidates for this role is $188,000- $230,000. We use a location factor to adjust this range for candidates that are located outside of geographic region of our New York office. Placement within the salary band is determined based on experience.