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)