Software Engineer, Agents

Sim

$120K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience as a software engineer with a focus on distributed systems
  • Proficient in TypeScript/JavaScript and familiar with Bun
  • Proven track record of maintaining and operating production systems
  • Experience with LLM integrations and foundation model APIs
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently and define project roadmaps
  • Strong architectural awareness with a focus on agility
  • Familiarity with AWS infrastructure is a plus
  • Open-source contributions are welcome.

Responsibilities

  • Own the development of the agentic workflow engine for tool-using agent workflows
  • Advance the Copilot natural language interface for workflow management
  • Design integrations with LLM providers and external APIs
  • Architect the orchestration layer for reliable agent executions
  • Establish technical standards for code quality and architecture
  • Contribute across the stack within the Next.js monorepo
  • Diagnose and resolve complex issues involving LLMs and developer tooling

Benefits

  • Competitive salary with stock options for early team members
  • Comprehensive health insurance and relocation assistance
  • Visa sponsorship for eligible candidates
Full Job Description
About the Role

You'll own end-to-end development of our core agentic workflow engine and Copilot - the AI assistant that helps developers build and debug workflows using natural language, turning high-level intent into executable, reliable agents. This spans our backend (Next.js), orchestration layer, and all integrations with LLMs and external APIs.

Copilot is currently the best-in-class tool for building workflows with natural language. Your job is to keep it there and push it further - making it faster, more reliable, and capable of handling increasingly complex agentic architectures.

This is a foundational role. You'll set architecture decisions, reliability standards, and coding patterns that define how the core product works. On a team of 5, your work ships to tens of thousands of developers on fast release cycles.
What You'll Do
  • Own the agentic workflow engine: the runtime that executes multi-step, tool-using agent workflows in production
  • Build and evolve Copilot - our natural language interface for creating, editing, and debugging workflows
  • Design and maintain integrations with LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, local models via Ollama) and external APIs
  • Architect the orchestration layer that turns visual flows into reliable, observable agent executions
  • Set technical standards for the codebase - reliability, testing, code quality, and architecture patterns
  • Work across the stack in our Next.js monorepo, shipping to production daily
  • Debug hard problems at the intersection of LLMs, distributed systems, and developer tooling
What We're Looking For
  • Strong generalist engineer who has shipped complex distributed systems or developer tools to production
  • Deep experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and Bun; comfort working in a Next.js monorepo
  • Track record of owning and operating production systems - you've been paged, you've debugged the weird ones, you've made things reliable
  • Experience integrating with LLMs or building on top of foundation model APIs
  • High agency and ownership - on a team this small, you define the roadmap as much as you execute it
  • Strong opinions on architecture, loosely held - you care about building things right but move fast
  • Experience with AWS infrastructure is a plus
  • Contributions to open-source projects are a plus
Why Sim
  • Competitive salary + meaningful equity. Early team, significant ownership.
  • Full benefits. Comprehensive health insurance, relocation.
  • Visa sponsorship available.


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