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Founding Backend Engineer

You own the core of Agent: the worker runtime, memory, approvals and the receipts people forward to clients. You ship to production every week and read the result yourself.

  • Remote
  • Full time
  • Senior to staff
  • Pay terms to confirm
A runtime that keeps its state
  1. 1Plan
  2. 2Run
  3. 3Check

Meet Kai“Ship it. Then check it ran.”

What success looks like

  • A task started on one provider finishes on another, with no one re-briefing it.
  • Every run ends with a receipt: what ran, what passed, what it cost.
  • The worker runtime stays fast and calm when a vendor has a bad day.

What you will do

  • Design and build modules in the Express and Postgres backend, with typed contracts end to end.
  • Turn a fuzzy goal into a plan with rails: executable checks that run every time.
  • Own the full loop: spec, code, tests, release, and a look at the real output.
  • Read traces and benchmarks, then change the harness to make the next run cheaper or more correct.

About you

  • You have shipped and run a production backend. You can say what you cut and why.
  • You treat tests and typed contracts as part of the feature, not a later step.
  • You like model work, but you care more that the whole system keeps its promises.

Nice to have

  • Queues, sandboxes or job runners
  • LLM tool use and evaluation
  • Postgres at the edge of its limits

A short note, please

With your resume, write a page or less on the work you are proudest of. Tell us what you chose to cut, and which of our values you would hold us to.

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