Backend Engineer, AI (Agent Systems)
Bjak · Remote · United States ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote
- Backend + AI focus
- Python & Node.js
- Kubernetes & Docker
- Small high-impact team
You will own the backend systems that bridge AI models and user interfaces, ensuring fast and stable interactions. The team builds proactive applications for email, tasks, and calendars, aiming to reduce the need for complex prompting while maintaining high reliability in long-running workflows.
What you'll do
- Build and operate backend systems serving AI features in production
- Design inference pipelines and orchestration layers around models
- Manage monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response
- Optimize latency and throughput via caching, batching, and streaming
- Ensure APIs are stable and support seamless frontend integration
What you'll need
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals in production environments
- Experience running high-throughput, low-latency services
- Familiarity with AI inference patterns like LLMs and embeddings
- Comfortable debugging distributed systems under heavy load
- Bias toward shipping code and learning from production behavior
Stack
- Python
- NodeJs
- Pytorch
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- SQL
- NoSQL
- Kubernetes
- Docker
Hiring process
- Technical team evaluates initial applications
- Schedule three to four interviews maximum
- Interviews conducted via virtual meetings or onsite
- Prompt decision following final assessment