Python Backend Engineer / AI Engineer
Python Backend Engineer / AI Engineer
Posted 2 days ago
SENIORITY
Senior
About the role
- Looking for a strong backend engineer to build AI-powered agents, system-to-system integrations, and maintain MCP connectors. The ideal candidate will have strong Python and backend engineering experience, with exposure to distributed systems and AI development.
- Mandatory SkillsStrong Python development experienceStrong backend systems engineering experienceStrong SQL and database querying skills
- Experience troubleshooting performance issues and optimizing backend/database operations
- Experience with APIs, integrations, and distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with AI development/coding tools such as Codex, Claude, or GitHub Copilot
- Ability to work onsite at the San Francisco office 3 days per week
- Nice-to-Have Skills
- Temporal or other workflow orchestration platformsAI Agent development / Agent SDKMCP / MCP connectors
- Microservices and asynchronous processing
- React / full-stack development
- Cloud platforms and distributed architectures
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