Backend Software Engineer, Agentic
Higgsfield4 days ago
Almaty, KazakhstanSenior
Responsibilities
- Build orchestration for multi-step agent tasks, tool calls, streaming updates, and cancellation.
- Implement durable workflows with checkpoints, resumability, retries, and recovery without duplicating actions.
- Connect agents to generation, editing, and external services through clear, validated interfaces.
- Enforce user permissions, tenant isolation, resource limits, and approval requirements for consequential actions.
- Trace failures, build regression cases, and improve task completion, latency, reliability, and cost.
- Own agent capabilities end to end, from defining success and scoping workflows through shipping, measuring impact, and iterating from failed runs and user feedback.
Requirements
- Have taken a difficult problem from an unclear starting point to a production system and be able to explain personal decisions, contributions, and results.
- Be able to build reliable agent execution involving state machines, concurrency, queues, recovery, model APIs, secure tool calls, and repeatable evaluations.
- Demonstrate independent prioritization, blocker removal, scope control, evidence-based adaptation, and persistence through difficult problems.
- Investigate real user tasks and failed agent runs to determine what to automate and when to stop ineffective workflows.
- Be receptive to feedback, willing to change direction based on evidence, and able to share knowledge and operational responsibility.
- Nice-to-have experience includes production agents, workflow engines, developer tools, high-throughput systems, long-running jobs, agent context management, memory, subagents, parallel tool calls, sandboxed execution, scoped authorization, or multimodal image, video, or audio workflows.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary in USD, equity, and relocation support.
- Ownership of systems that turn AI capabilities into completed creative work.
- Almaty, Kazakhstan location; the posting does not state a remote or hybrid arrangement.
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About Higgsfield
Higgsfield builds generative AI tools for video and image creation used by creators, brands, and social media teams to produce content at scale. The company offers a studio-style app and AI-powered workflows for generation, editing, and marketing automation. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held.