Town
Backend Engineer
$250K–$300K
San Francisco +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Apr 23, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
NYC - Experience
- No specific number of years stated; the posting emphasizes demonstrated scaling experience and trajectory over tenure.
About the job
Build and own Town’s backend systems for an AI assistant, including LLM orchestration, workflow execution, memory, identity, knowledge, and agent networks.
What you'll do
- Build orchestration, multi-provider LLM infrastructure, and agentic workflows.
- Design the identity and knowledge layer, including real-time personalization and memory.
- Own backend architecture and service reliability end to end.
What they ask for
- Experience building and scaling backend systems through a company’s high-growth period.
- Ability to define technical direction in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Systems-thinking experience with distributed systems, data pipelines, APIs, or reliability.
- Experience with LLM infrastructure, agentic systems, or real-time AI workloads in production.
Nice to have
- An AI-native coding workflow that improves speed and effectiveness.
Pay
$250K – $300K (base salary; currency not stated)
Tools
LLM, email, calendar, Slack, docs, CRM
AI focus
Build AI assistant systems, including LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, memory, suggestions, personalization, and agent networks.
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