New Generation
AI Systems / Backend Engineer
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- Not specified.
About the job
Build backend systems and AI data pipelines for agentic commerce products, collaborating with product engineers to rapidly develop and improve user experiences.
What you'll do
- Build and iterate on AI products and scalable backend implementations.
- Implement AI data pipelines and products involving data-intensive applications, search, distributed systems, and real-time data flows.
- Collaborate closely with product engineering to deliver high-quality user experiences.
What they ask for
- Experience building 0-to-1 AI products, balancing speed with scalable implementation.
- Interest in data-intensive applications, search, distributed systems, and real-time data flows.
- Care about high-quality user experiences and practical AI product and pipeline challenges.
- Self-motivated, with ownership, strong communication, and a bias toward action; based in San Francisco or willing to travel there occasionally.
Nice to have
- Shipped a production application with LLM retrieval as a core feature.
- Experience with mission-critical data infrastructure in hedge funds or fintech, or familiarity with Postgres, ElasticSearch, AWS, IaaC tools, Elixir, Go, Typescript, or Python.
Tools
Postgres, ElasticSearch, AWS, IaaC, Elixir, Go, Typescript, Python
AI focus
Build AI products, including agentic commerce and AI data pipelines; LLM retrieval in production is a bonus.
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