Klarity

Senior AI Backend Engineer

Klarity
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6 months ago

Base Salary

$220k - $280k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test, deploy, and own backend services and infrastructure for Within’s AI platform.
  • Create data ingestion and storage systems, APIs, background processing, data models, service boundaries, and deployment architecture.
  • Implement reliable AI orchestration workflows using structured outputs, tool calling, state management, grounding, and guardrails.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks, model regression tests, traceability, and exception-handling systems for AI features.
  • Design enterprise security, least-privilege access, tenant isolation, auditability, and secure data-handling patterns.
  • Set technical direction, own the technical roadmap for a core area, make architectural decisions, and mentor earlier-career engineers.
  • Partner with product, design, frontend, and infrastructure teams to turn ambiguous product ideas into production-ready technical plans.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years designing and shipping production-grade products.
  • Strong backend engineering experience designing reliable, observable, secure, and high-performance services, APIs, data models, and infrastructure.
  • Experience designing at least one production system from scratch that other engineers use at scale.
  • Experience shipping multiple AI-powered features to production, with knowledge of LLMs, multimodal agents, orchestration, evaluations, model regression, and failure modes.
  • Ability to make architectural tradeoffs, set technical direction, and establish engineering patterns and conventions.
  • Experience with enterprise security, scalability, data handling, and reliable distributed systems.
  • Strong product judgment, execution, technical communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.
  • No CS or Engineering degree is required; evidence may come from production work, open-source contributions, research, or high-quality side projects.
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and Copilot, and building AI-assisted development workflows or internal tooling is expected.

Benefits

  • Equity in addition to competitive cash compensation.
  • 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision options.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • $500 annual learning fund.
  • $150 monthly wellness fund.
  • 401(k) via Betterment.
  • Relocation support to the San Francisco Bay Area where applicable.
  • Pre-tax parking and transit account contributions, daily catered office meals, snacks and drinks, and a secure bike room.
Klarity

About Klarity

51-200 employees

Klarity builds enterprise AI software that automates back-office workflows such as contract and document review, exception handling, and finance/legal operations. The platform observes work across systems, captures decision logic into a context graph, and executes recommendations or automated actions; it’s sold as SaaS with enterprise integrations and services. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, Klarity serves customers including DoorDash and Cloudflare and raised a Series B in 2024.

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