Senior Software Engineer, AI Applications

About Nayya

Founded in 2019, Nayya is on a mission to connect people’s most important information, so they can thrive in their health and wealth. Powered by AI and advanced analytics, Nayya’s platform transforms complex benefits experiences into intuitive, seamless, and ongoing interactions—meeting people's real world needs. As a trusted platform and partner to leading employers, benefits solutions, and HR tech providers, Nayya unlocks long-term value through helping employees live more resilient lives. Backed by strategic investors like ICONIQ, Felicis Ventures, SemperVirens, Workday Ventures, MetLife Nextgen Ventures, and ADP Ventures, Nayya is ushering in the future of health and wealth for all.

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.

Nayya is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics