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Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, Applied AI

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about 5 hours ago
New York, NY, USASenior / Staff+
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Base Salary

$155k - $225k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the Product Manager and Designer to define and prioritize the Applied AI roadmap.
  • Design and build MCP tooling to expose data and service layers for agents.
  • Build and harden agent orchestration for tool-calling loops and workflows.
  • Improve reliability of non-deterministic systems through evaluations and logging.
  • Focus on performance, latency, architecture, and clean code.
  • Collaborate with engineers to define end-to-end solutions across platforms.
  • Own features from design to implementation and delivery.
  • Establish best practices for Applied AI as the team grows.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in backend web development.
  • 3+ years of experience with Python, using Django or Flask.
  • Strong skills in API and distributed-systems design.
  • Genuine curiosity about applied AI and its developments.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • An entrepreneurial mindset and comfort with ambiguity.

Benefits

  • Unlimited vacation.
  • Health insurance options, including fully covered plans.
  • Dental and vision insurance.
  • 401k plan with company match.
  • Commuter benefits.
  • Stock options.

Tech Stack

AWSDjangoFlaskKubernetesPythonRabbitMQ

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