Role OverviewAs a Senior / Staff Backend Engineer, you'll architect the core platform powering AI agents, distributed backend services, APIs, and production infrastructure while working alongside a high-performing engineering team solving challenging systems problems at scale.
What You Will Do
Architect and build the backend platform powering autonomous AI agents, design scalable distributed systems supporting production AI workloads, build reliable APIs, backend services, and platform infrastructure from the ground up.
Why It Might Be a Fit
Ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience in backend software engineering, experience building and scaling production AI/ML platforms or products, and experience designing and operating distributed backend systems at meaningful production scale.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in backend software engineering
- Experience building and scaling production AI/ML platforms or products
- Experience designing and operating distributed backend systems at meaningful production scale
- Experience working in fast-paced, high-growth startup environments
- Experience leading technical architecture for high-impact engineering initiatives
- Experience owning backend systems from design through production operations
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals
- Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture
- Experience with concurrency, asynchronous processing, queues, workers, and caching
- Strong production systems and backend platform engineering experience
- Experience designing scalable APIs and service contracts
- Hands-on experience building AI/ML platforms, LLM applications, or autonomous AI agents
- Experience building multi-step agent workflows or orchestration systems
- Strong system design and backend architecture fundamentals
- Experience with observability, debugging, reliability, and production operations
- Comfortable leveraging modern AI development tools to improve engineering productivity
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field preferred
- Strong technical foundation with demonstrated engineering excellence
Benefits
- Base Salary: $200,000 – $250,000
- Performance Bonus
- Competitive Equity Package
- Significant ownership over AI platform architecture
- Direct collaboration with engineering leadership
- Opportunity to build large-scale autonomous AI systems
- High-impact engineering role
- Exposure to cutting-edge AI agent technologies
- Rapid career growth opportunities
- Hybrid collaboration with a high-performing engineering team
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