Software engineer, agents

Writer

$130K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience, particularly in Python
  • Proficiency in agentic coding with tools like Cursor and Claude Code
  • Experience in building distributed systems and complex backend APIs
  • Expertise in integrating AI models and vector databases
  • Strong understanding of agent orchestration and asynchronous workflows
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms and containerization technologies
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, fitting a 'connect + challenge + own' approach
  • Experience with AI agents performing multi-step actions.

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain scalable, secure agent-driven services using AI frameworks
  • Develop robust infrastructure and high-throughput APIs for agent capabilities
  • Integrate agent functionalities with backend services and external APIs
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create production-ready software
  • Ensure reliability and observability for all agent components
  • Contribute to architectural design and participate in code reviews.

Benefits

  • Generous PTO and company holidays
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Paid parental leave for 16 weeks
  • Support for fertility and family planning
  • Early-detection cancer testing services
  • Flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts with contributions
  • Annual work-life stipends for wellness and professional development
  • Company-wide and team off-site events
  • Competitive compensation with stock options and 401k
Full Job Description
About the roleWe're seeking a highly skilled fullstack software engineer to join our engineering team building advanced AI-driven agent systems that execute autonomous workflows, orchestrate multi-step tasks, and extend human capacity across enterprise applications. In this role, you'll play a key part in designing, building, and scaling next-generation AI agents that integrate with enterprise data and services to solve real-world problems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn complex agent concepts into production-ready systems.

We are open to hiring for this role at multiple levels, with compensation ranges scaled to match your experience, expertise, and the scope of the role.

What you'll do
  • Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure agent-driven services and systems that autonomously accomplish tasks using modern AI frameworks.
  • Develop and enhance robust infrastructure and high-throughput APIs, focusing on core agent capabilities such as memory, communication channels, skills, intelligent decision logic, security and workflow management.
  • Integrate agent capabilities with backend services, data stores, vector databases, search/retrieval systems, and external APIs.
  • Collaborate with product managers, AI researchers, data engineers, and UX teams to translate high-level agent use cases into robust, production-ready software.
  • Ensure reliability, monitoring, and observability for all agent components (metrics, logging, CI/CD, fault tolerance).
  • Contribute to architectural design decisions and participate in rigorous code reviews to uphold quality and maintainability.


☆ What you need
  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong proficiency (3+ years) in Python in production environments
  • Proficiency in native agentic coding, demonstrated through the daily use of tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and other agentic coding platforms.
  • Demonstrated experience building distributed systems, microservices, or complex backend APIs that support AI/agent workflows.
  • Solid expertise with systems that integrate AI models, agent frameworks (e.g., Langraph, Agent Harness or platform-specific tooling), vector databases, and large context reasoning services.
  • Understanding of agent orchestration patterns, state management, and asynchronous workflows.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and operational engineering best practices.
  • Good grasp of performance optimization, testing frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a "connect + challenge + own" mindset.
  • Past work on AI agents that coordinate multi-step actions, reasoning, or autonomous decision-making loops.
  • Contributions to open-source agent toolkits or SDKs.
  • Experience with frontend technologies (React, TypeScript) for tooling around agent management interfaces.


Benefits & perks (US Full-time employees)
  • Generous PTO, plus company holidays
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
  • Paid parental leave for all parents (16 weeks)
  • Fertility and family planning support
  • Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri
  • Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options
  • Health savings account for eligible plans with company contribution
  • Annual work-life stipends for:
    • Wellness stipend for gym, massage/chiropractor, personal training, etc.
    • Learning and development stipend
  • Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites
  • Competitive compensation, company stock options and 401k

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