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- Canada, United States
- Contract
- Full-time
- Experience
- Lead
- Salary
- $210K – $230K / year
- Posted
- 9 November 2026
- Apply by
- 8 January 2027
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior/Staff Software Engineer to help design and build next-generation AI-powered agent platforms for customer-facing applications. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in fast-paced startup environments, enjoy solving complex technical challenges, and have hands-on experience shipping production-grade LLM or agentic AI systems.
About the role
The ideal candidate brings strong full-stack engineering capabilities with a backend-first mindset, deep familiarity with AI tooling and infrastructure, and the ability to lead high-impact cross-functional initiatives from concept through production.
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver AI agent experiences end-to-end, including backend orchestration, LLM integrations, conversational interfaces, tool execution, and evaluation systems
- Design scalable architectures for agentic AI systems and contribute to platform-level AI infrastructure
- Build and improve shared systems such as:
- Tool abstractions
- Retrieval pipelines / RAG systems
- Conversation persistence
- Evaluation frameworks
- Permissioning and observability
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to define technical direction and product strategy
- Make thoughtful engineering tradeoffs balancing latency, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency
- Improve AI system quality through experimentation, evaluation frameworks, and continuous iteration
- Lead or contribute to large-scale technical initiatives across multiple teams
- Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices across the organization
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Proven experience building and shipping production-grade AI/LLM-powered applications or agentic systems
- Strong expertise in backend development using Node.js and TypeScript
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems, microservices, and backend infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with:
- Tool calling
- Prompt engineering
- Agent loops
- AI orchestration frameworks
- Familiarity with evaluation and observability tooling for non-deterministic AI systems such as:
- LangSmith
- Braintrust
- Custom evaluation frameworks
- Full-stack engineering experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React and TypeScript
- Strong understanding of databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated ownership mentality and ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments
Nice to have
- Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems at production scale
- Prior experience building customer-facing AI products
- Background working at high-growth or venture-backed startups
- Contributions to open-source AI tooling, agent frameworks, or developer productivity systems
- Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives
- Familiarity with AI observability and evaluation workflows
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern deployment practices
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive equity package
- Fully remote work environment
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI products with significant technical ownership
- High-impact role within a rapidly growing engineering organization
Eligibility
- This is a fully remote opportunity open to candidates located in the United States or Canada.
Salary
Competitive base salary ($210K – $230K DOE)
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