Senior Backend Engineer (AI Agent)

Commerce
Austin, Georgia
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 116,000 - 195,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Collaboration","Communication","Execution","Mentoring"]

Design and build AI conversational agents across the B2B commerce lifecycle, focusing on orchestration, sub-agent architecture, tool integration, and prompt engineering. Own eval-driven development by creating golden datasets, scorers, and regression suites to measure quality (e.g., discovery recall and quote accuracy). Integrate with MCP servers and backend tools with safe contracts and guardrails, while instrumenting tracing, metrics, and cost tracking to improve production outcomes.

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FursaFursa
Commerce
Commerce
2 months ago

Senior Backend Engineer (AI Agent)

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Job Summary

Design and build AI conversational agents across the B2B commerce lifecycle, focusing on orchestration, sub-agent architecture, tool integration, and prompt engineering. Own eval-driven development by creating golden datasets, scorers, and regression suites to measure quality (e.g., discovery recall and quote accuracy). Integrate with MCP servers and backend tools with safe contracts and guardrails, while instrumenting tracing, metrics, and cost tracking to improve production outcomes.
Location: Austin, Georgia
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and iterate on AI agents in Go/Python using orchestrator/sub-agent architecture for intent interpretation, delegation, and safe action execution.
  • •Lead eval-driven development by building and maintaining golden datasets, scorers, and regression suites for critical quality metrics.
  • •Develop and version prompts and model configurations as tested artifacts, and refine them based on evaluation results.
  • •Integrate agents with MCP servers and backend tools by defining safe tool-call contracts, approval flows for write actions, and guardrails against prompt injection and abuse.
  • •Instrument agents with tracing, metrics, and cost tracking; collaborate with product designers and frontend engineers to deliver conversational experiences.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 116,000 - 195,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of backend or full-stack software development experience, with hands-on experience building agentic AI/LLM applications.
  • •Preferred minimum Bachelor’s degree in CS, EE, SW, CE, MIS, or equivalent experience.
  • •Strong development skills in one or more major languages (Go, Python, Ruby, PHP).
  • •Production experience working with LLMs (e.g., Gemini, Anthropic, OpenAI).
  • •Experience with LLM evaluation: building datasets, defining scorers/metrics, and iterating based on eval results.
Experience:5+ yearsAgentic AILLME-commerceSaaS
Education:Bachelor's in CS, EE, SW, CE, MIS
Skills:Problem-solvingCollaborationCommunicationExecutionMentoring
Tech Stack:GoPythonGoogle ADKGeminiBraintrustAG-UIMCPGRPCGraphQLRESTRubyPHPLLMsAnthropicOpenAILangChainLangGraphSemantic KernelLangSmithRAG

Company Brief

Commerce
Provides a SaaS e-commerce platform enabling retailers and brands to build, run, and scale online stores with customizable storefronts, integrations, and omnichannel selling tools.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Austin, United States
Founded: 2009
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