Member of Technical Staff, Backend/Platform Engineer
Designs and builds scalable backend services and owns product surfaces from architecture to production. Requires 5+ years experience, including 2+ years with AI agents, bots, or models, focusing on reliability, developer experience, and business impact.
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On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
About the role
What You’ll Do
Design and build scalable backend services
Own major product surfaces from architecture to production
Improve reliability, performance, and developer experience
Work directly with customers to understand pain points
Ship enterprise-grade features without enterprise slowness
Use AI tooling aggressively — we expect you to automate yourself
You Might Be a Fit If
You like building real products, not just infrastructure for infrastructure’s sake
You enjoy driving initiatives across teams to get things done
You think in terms of systems, tradeoffs, and business impact
You care about developer experience and clean abstractions
You’re curious about AI and want to build where the future is going
You want ownership, not task lists
Minimum Qualifications
Comfortable collaborating with both humans and AI systems (Yes, We’re Serious)
5+ years of experience helping humans solve real problems
2+ years of working with AI — agents, bots, chats, or building on top of models
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