Staff Backend Engineer
Town.com, Inc.6 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$250k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and own the backend for Town’s AI assistant end to end.
- Develop orchestration layers for agentic workflows and multi-provider LLM infrastructure.
- Build workflow execution, identity, knowledge, personalization, trust, autonomy, and agent-network systems.
- Define technical direction and make architecture decisions in an ambiguous, fast-moving greenfield environment.
- Design and scale distributed systems, data pipelines, APIs, and reliable real-time AI workloads.
Requirements
- Experience building and scaling backend systems through a company’s high-growth period, with concrete product scaling examples.
- Ability to define technical direction and work effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Systems-oriented experience with distributed systems, data pipelines, APIs, reliability, and infrastructure-level tradeoffs.
- Experience with LLM infrastructure, agentic systems, or real-time AI workloads in production.
- A highly effective AI-native coding workflow is preferred.
- Interest in working in person five days per week.
Benefits
- Five days per week in person in either San Francisco or New York City.
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About Town.com, Inc.
Town.com, Inc. builds an AI-powered assistant that connects to users’ existing tools to triage email, draft messages in their voice, manage calendars, and run cross-app workflows. The product targets professionals and teams seeking an agent that learns over time and performs work on their behalf. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held.