Backend Engineer _ AI Gateway- Bilingual (Korean/ English) at Woongjin, Inc
Plano, TX
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Aug 16, 2026
Plano, TX
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role involves designing and operating a high-performance AI Gateway — a policy-driven intermediary layer that routes, inspects, and governs traffic between enterprise clients and LLM/AI service providers. The work centers on async Python backend development, network programming, and cloud infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on latency-sensitive streaming, security, and large-scale concurrency. The initial assignment is on-site in New Jersey, with a planned relocation to Dallas by October 2026.
Senior level · 3+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 470 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 120–610
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 1, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The job description is structured with a 'What we are looking for' block (treated as required) and a 'Qualifications' block. Despite the heading 'Qualifications' typically implying hard gates, the items listed there (CASB/DLP, IAM/SSO, AI/LLM pipelines, observability) read more like preferred/bonus capabilities layered on top of the core engineering requirements, so they are marked preferred.
The role specifies an initial on-site assignment in New Jersey with a required relocation to Dallas, TX by October 2026 — candidates must be willing to relocate.
The posting explicitly states NO C2C (corp-to-corp), indicating direct W2 or 1099 engagement only.
AKS, EKS, and GKE are listed as interchangeable Kubernetes deployment targets; captured under Kubernetes with no separate skill entry.
Redis Streams is listed alongside RabbitMQ and Kafka as alternatives for async messaging; Redis is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
The 3+ years figure is the most specific role-level experience gate stated (for async Python and FastAPI); used as the overall years minimum.
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