Staff Backend Engineer
Town.com, Inc.3 months ago
Base Salary
$250k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and own Town’s backend systems end to end, including architecture and service ownership.
- Develop orchestration infrastructure for agentic workflows and multi-provider LLM systems.
- Build identity, knowledge, memory, personalization, trust, autonomy, and agent-network systems.
- Create AI-native experiences across email, calendar, contacts, and connected tools.
- Define technical direction and solve distributed-systems, data-pipeline, API, reliability, and cost-sensitive AI workload problems.
Requirements
- Experience building and scaling backend systems through a company’s high-growth arc, with concrete product-scaling examples.
- Ability to define technical direction in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Systems-thinking experience with distributed systems, data pipelines, APIs, and reliability.
- Experience with LLM infrastructure, agentic systems, or real-time AI workloads in production.
- Strong interest in AI-native coding workflows and demonstrated trajectory through what you have built.
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.