Fora
Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, Applied AI
$185K–$235K
New York City +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 4, 2026
- Location
- New York City
New York, New York, United States - Experience
- 5+ years in backend web development; 3+ years with Python, using Django / Flask / Alternative.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Authorization to work in the United States is required for full-time roles based in the New York City office. Fora is unable to sponsor or assist with U.S. work authorization. Roles based outside of the United States are not subject to this requirement.
About the job
Build and improve Fora’s AI-powered advisor products and backend infrastructure, including agent tools, orchestration, and quality monitoring.
What you'll do
- Define and deliver Applied AI capabilities with product and design partners, turning ambiguous goals into shippable features.
- Build permission-aware MCP tools and agent orchestration, including workflows, streaming, retries, and guardrails.
- Improve system reliability and performance through evaluations, regression suites, tracing, logging, and cross-team solution design.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years experience in backend web development.
- 3+ years experience with Python, using Django / Flask / Alternative.
- Strong API and distributed-systems design skills, with relational database and ORM fundamentals.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered features; familiarity with MCP, LLM provider SDKs, and agent or evaluation frameworks.
- Experience with AI evaluation and observability, async task or streaming infrastructure, AWS, or Kubernetes.
Pay
$185K to $235K + equity (base salary)
Tools
Python, Django, Flask, MCP, Anthropic, OpenAI, Celery, RabbitMQ
AI focus
Build AI agent tools and orchestration; develop evaluations, regression suites, tracing, and logging to improve quality, reliability, cost, and speed.
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