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Senior Backend Engineer (AI Agent)

Ladders · United States · 2 days ago
RemoteRemoteEngineering$116k–$195k/yrFull-time

Responsibilities

  • Design and build AI agents in Go/Python using an orchestration and sub-agent architecture
  • Own the development of evaluation metrics and maintain critical quality datasets
  • Refined prompts and model configurations as versioned artifacts
  • Integrate agents with backend tools, ensuring safety in tool-call contracts
  • Instrument agents with measurements to drive quality improvements
  • Collaborate with product designers and frontend engineers for better user experiences
  • Develop proof-of-concept agents, refining them to production quality

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in backend or full-stack software development, especially with AI/LLM applications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Proven skills in at least one programming language (Go/Python/Ruby/PHP)
  • Experience with LLMs in production environments (e.g., Gemini, Anthropic)
  • Hands-on knowledge of LLM evaluation metrics and dataset creation
  • Strong understanding of prompt engineering and agent orchestration patterns
  • Deep experience designing and building APIs (gRPC, GraphQL, REST)

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