CareerPlan

Staff Backend Engineer, Agentic AI

US - San FranciscoFull-time2026-02-19 → 2026-11-11
On-site · United States

Core

Design the backbone of intelligent finance systems, building scalable services and resilient APIs for agentic workflows and AI copilots.

Role type

Staff Backend Engineer (Agentic AI)

Builds

Distributed event-driven systems, production-grade Python APIs, data architecture primitives, and platform foundations for AI-native financial stacks.

Domain

Fintech / Global Payments / Agentic AI

Required skills

Python at scale, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, SQL/NoSQL database design, GCP services, security and compliance best practices

Preferred skills

Experience building AI-native software stacks, designing feedback loops between product data and models

Technologies

Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, GCP (Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, KMS)

Responsibilities

Design and operate distributed, event-driven systems processing high-volume financial data; Build typed, production-grade APIs powering agentic workflows; Own data architecture end-to-end including schema design and storage layers; Develop resilient infrastructure primitives like queues and observability; Partner with ML teams to productionize research-grade ideas; Define architecture for an AI-native financial stack

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with architectural ownership