Senior Backend Engineer
Giga· Engineering
New York$200k - $350kFull-timePosted 8mo ago
About the role
Backend engineer role responsible for building the infrastructure and systems powering AI agents, spanning data pipelines, analytics, and real-time agent systems with end-to-end ownership from problem framing to deployment.
Responsibilities
- Own problems end-to-end: figuring out the right approach, building it, and iterating based on learnings.
- Ship features that power AI agents across data pipelines, analytics, and real-time systems.
- Make sound technical decisions, ship reliably, and set the bar for code quality and system design.
Qualifications
- 4+ years building backend systems, ideally at reliability and scale focused companies.
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to define problems and solutions autonomously.
- Willingness to dive into unfamiliar parts of the codebase as required.
- Ability to write clean code, pay attention to details, and know when to ship.
- Interest in AI agents and infrastructure challenges of running them in production.
Skills
Required:Backend developmentPython
Nice to have:TypeScript/Node.js
Benefits
- Competitive base + bonus + equity
- Catered lunch daily
- Dinner stipend
- $500/month wellness & commuter benefit (gym, fitness classes, mental health)
- 401(k) plan
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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