Backend Engineer, Agents
Lapel
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 190,000 - 240,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["TypeScript","React","Node.js","PostgreSQL","Temporal","Pulsar","APIs","Observability"]Build and maintain the backend infrastructure powering long-horizon AI agents, focusing on memory, context retrieval, and orchestration across multi-tenant systems. Design APIs, ensure production reliability, observability, and tooling to monitor agent behavior. Work in a TypeScript monorepo with Node.js, Postgres, Temporal, and Pulsar to enable scalable, enterprise-ready customer-facing automation.

