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Senior Backend Engineer – Agents
Location
United States
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
$140K - $210K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer – Agents
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• Ship code execution for the assistant. The assistant decides when writing code beats answering non-deterministically — today that's generating charts and tables in Python on the fly; next it's reusable user-defined tools and calling external APIs to pull in whatever data the task needs. • Build the eval and observability layer that tells us when an agent is getting better. Unit tests don't cut it for non-deterministic output. We run evals and tracing (LangFuse and our own tooling) as the bar for shipping: if we can't measure it, we don't ship it. • Push generated UI forward. The backend increasingly decides what the user sees — the LLM picks the right presentation (table, chart, widget) and renders it in the assistant, with a full-screen experience and stored, referenceable artifacts on the roadmap. Effectively: customers generate the reports we used to hand-build, one custom report at a time. • Take Custom Agents from prototype to GA. Event-driven agents that act on what's happening inside the CRM in real time — an email lands, an agent drafts the reply from knowledge sources and context, the user approves. This is where we differentiate from the general-purpose assistants: we see the events, we have the context. • Make deterministic and non-deterministic systems work together. Sales processes need steps that happen every single time; LLMs are bad at that. You'll help fuse our Workflows engine with agentic steps so customers get reliability where it matters and intelligence where it helps. • Handle the edges that make agents trustworthy. What happens to a fleet of running agents when a customer's AI credits run out? Pause semantics, recovery, and making sure nothing places a hundred calls that were supposed to happen last week. • Pick the right model for the job. We use many providers, test new models constantly, and are moving toward cost-aware routing — simple summarization jobs shouldn't run on frontier-priced models. You'll call when something is production-ready and when it's still a demo.
Job Requirements
- A seasoned engineer. Python is our backbone, but perhaps you've worked across Go, Rust, or TypeScript. You pick the right tool for the workload rather than retreating to what you know.
- AI-native in production. You've shipped meaningful, impactful agentic features to users. You have opinions on retrieval, evals, tool design, context engineering, and where the current frontier models fall over.
- Working with AI in your day-to-day. You use AI tools in your own workflow to ship faster, write tighter code, and reason about unfamiliar parts of the codebase. You have a POV on where they help and where they get in the way.
- A builder first. You'd rather get a sloppy v1 in front of fifty customers than spend three weeks on abstractions. You ship.
- Battle-tested. You've debugged incidents where latency budgets didn't hold, owned a system everyone else relied on, or carried a pager for something with real customer impact.
- Close to the research. You read papers, or you've spent serious time in retrieval, RAG, RLHF, or fine-tuning. Not a researcher, but you can read one and tell us whether the result matters for our problem.
- Comfortable with non-determinism. Much of your output is probabilistic. Conventional patterns don't hold. You find this fun.
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