Lapel

Backend Engineer, Agents

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3 months ago

Base Salary

$190k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design systems that help agents remember, summarize, and retrieve context across long-running customer interactions.
  • Build workflows and tools that reduce failure modes and improve agent trust in production.
  • Create observability and evaluation infrastructure to monitor agent behavior, debug issues, and improve quality.
  • Scale multi-tenant systems that isolate customer and agent context for reliable enterprise use.
  • Build backend infrastructure supporting agent memory, orchestration, tool use, actions, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of backend or software engineering experience building reliable production systems.
  • Experience designing APIs, working with databases, and building reliable long-running workflows.
  • Practical understanding of system design, debugging, observability, and production reliability.
  • Interest in building dependable AI-agent infrastructure and translating product needs into reliable systems.
  • Customer-focused, proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable with high ownership and autonomy.

Benefits

  • Full medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and commuter benefits.
  • Generous time off, company holidays, and coordinated team-wide breaks.
  • Daily lunch and dinner, in-office snacks, and health and wellness benefits.
  • Regular off-sites and a collaborative, feedback-oriented team culture.
  • Meaningful early-stage equity is offered.
  • The role includes an on-site visit lasting 1–2 days during the interview process.
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About Lapel

11-50 employees

Infrastructure to power every customer interaction on the internet.

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