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Staff Backend Engineer, Agentic AI

US - San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-02-19 → 2026-09-27

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

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