# Software engineer, agents

**Company:** [Writer](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/writer)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $141k – $292k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Python, LangChain, Vector Databases, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, React, TypeScript, CI/CD, Microservices
**Posted:** 2026-05-18

> Fullstack engineer building scalable AI agent systems for enterprise workflows, integrating with data stores and external services. Requires 3+ years of Python experience and hands-on work with agent frameworks and distributed systems.

## Job Description

## What you'll do
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure agent-driven services and systems that autonomously accomplish tasks using modern AI frameworks.
- Develop and enhance robust infrastructure and high-throughput APIs, focusing on core agent capabilities such as memory, communication channels, skills, intelligent decision logic, security and workflow management.
- Integrate agent capabilities with backend services, data stores, vector databases, search/retrieval systems, and external APIs.
- Collaborate with product managers, AI researchers, data engineers, and UX teams to translate high-level agent use cases into robust, production-ready software.
- Ensure reliability, monitoring, and observability for all agent components (metrics, logging, CI/CD, fault tolerance).
- Contribute to architectural design decisions and participate in rigorous code reviews to uphold quality and maintainability.

## What you need
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong proficiency (3+ years) in Python in production environments.
- Proficiency in native agentic coding, demonstrated through the daily use of tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and other agentic coding platforms.
- Demonstrated experience building distributed systems, microservices, or complex backend APIs that support AI/agent workflows.
- Solid expertise with systems that integrate AI models, agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain or platform-specific tooling), vector databases, and large context reasoning services.
- Understanding of agent orchestration patterns, state management, and asynchronous workflows.
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and operational engineering best practices.
- Good grasp of performance optimization, testing frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a “connect + challenge + own” mindset.
- Past work on AI agents that coordinate multi-step actions, reasoning, or autonomous decision-making loops.
- Contributions to open-source agent toolkits or SDKs.
- Experience with frontend technologies (React, TypeScript) for tooling around agent management interfaces.

## Benefits & perks (US Full-time employees)
- Generous PTO, plus company holidays
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
- Paid parental leave for all parents (16 weeks)
- Fertility and family planning support
- Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri
- Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options
- Health savings account for eligible plans with company contribution
- Annual work-life stipends for wellness, learning and development
- Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites
- Competitive compensation, company stock options and 401k

## Similar roles

- [Software Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/7d78df3b-3012-46ac-978b-5930a0b0d1cf) - Fivetran - Oakland, CA - $141k – $169k/yr
- [Full Stack Software Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/c76374cf-d179-48a9-afb4-6981202f1b13) - Illumio - Sunnyvale, CA - $141k – $162k/yr
- [Full Stack Software Engineer - Billing Team](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/22b41fff-c7c5-4d13-8af2-b217523406ac) - Clickhouse - Remote - $141k – $230k/yr
- [Software Engineer, Product](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/67c6072c-e5b6-4ae3-b625-2993587bb538) - Assembled - Remote - $140k – $210k/yr
- [Software Engineer, Product](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/073a4433-c1ff-4b21-8f37-bbdf01358350) - Assembled - San Francisco, CA - $140k – $210k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/b3130994-5a0c-4fde-adf5-b6f7ed2018d3
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/b3130994-5a0c-4fde-adf5-b6f7ed2018d3