Backend Engineer building scalable AI-agent infrastructure on AWS Serverless (Lambda, Step Functions, Aurora). Design high-performance systems, create monitoring/alerting, mentor team, and use codegen models to accelerate development while collaborating with AI/product teams.
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On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
About the role
Responsibilities
Design and build scalable, high-performance infrastructure.
Design architectures that allow both engineers and language models to quickly create, test, and deploy application code.
Create reliable monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure platform stability and performance.
Mentor teammates and lead technical decision-making across the organization.
Collaborate with AI and product teams to translate complex requirements into elegant technical solutions.
Drive engineering best practices, including code reviews, testing strategies, and documentation.
Use codegen models to move 10x faster than you did two years ago.
Requirements
Love language models.
Patience to be rigorous.
Act like an owner in everything you do.
Pick things up unusually quickly.
Love the weird little details of life in our customer’s companies.
Care about your work and moving fast.
Know more than you need to know with insatiable curiosity.
Nice-to-Haves
Experience with AWS Serverless products (Lambda, Step Functions, RDS Aurora).
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