Town
Backend Engineer
$250K–$300K
NYC · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 23, 2026
- Experience
- No specific number of years stated; the posting emphasizes trajectory over tenure.
About the job
Build and own Town’s backend systems for AI assistants, including LLM orchestration, workflow execution, memory, identity, and knowledge infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Build systems for agentic workflows, multi-provider LLM infrastructure, and AI-native integrations with email, calendar, and contacts.
- Design the identity and knowledge layer, agent networks, and trust and autonomy systems.
- 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 across distributed systems, data pipelines, APIs, and reliability.
- Experience with LLM infrastructure, agentic systems, or real-time AI workloads in production.
Nice to have
- A highly effective AI-native coding workflow.
Pay
$250K – $300K (currency and whether base salary or total pay not stated)
Tools
LLM, email, calendar, Slack, docs, CRM
AI focus
Build production AI assistant systems, including LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, memory, personalization, suggestions, and agent-to-agent coordination.
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