Backend Software Engineer
About this role
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We need a senior backend engineer with 5-10 years of experience who has hands-on industry experience building agentic systems and working with LLMs. You should be deeply technical — able to understand algorithms, data structures, and system design at a fundamental level — and have a proven track record at early-stage or high-growth startups.
You'll serve as a technical lead and set the standard for engineering excellence on a small, high-caliber team.
Work experience
Experience building scalable backend system
s (distributed systems, large- scale data processing, information retrieval, and asynchronous workflows, etc)
Education
Formal degree required; self- taught or bootcamp graduates are not accepted.
Hard skills
Industry experience with TypeScript & AWS
Industry experience designing and building agentic systems, LLMS / generative AI (minimum 12 months)
Soft skills
Fluent in English (reading, writing, and speaking)
Miscellaneous
Ability to work on- site 5 days a week in San Francisco, CA (local or immediate relocation only)
Does not require visa sponsorship
Baseline
Seniority
5 - 10 years of experience as a backend software engineer
Nice-to-have
Work experience
Prior work experience at early- stage or high- growth startups