Senior AI-Powered Backend Engineer for Internal Agents

Kraken; Schweiz; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken, a leading crypto platform, is expanding the Agent Systems team, a 0->1 engineering group building AI-powered agents that automate internal workflows. You will operate at the intersection of AI and backend systems, delivering production-ready architectures while prototypes evolve toward scalable solutions.

You will collaborate with product, infra, and internal operations to ship agent-driven capabilities, improve speed and reliability, and define patterns for safe execution as usage grows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping production software systems.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals (APIs, distributed systems, data modeling, reliability).
• Experience building fullstack systems, with comfort working across backend and occasional frontend surfaces.
• Hands-on experience working with AI/ML systems, LLMs, or inference pipelines in production.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship AI-powered agent systems that automate internal workflows and decision paths.
• Design and implement inference pipelines that reason over user interactions across internal systems.
• Prototype quickly to validate agent behaviors, then productionize what proves valuable.
• Architect backend services that integrate with multiple internal APIs and data sources.
• Define patterns for safe, observable, and controllable agent execution.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to identify high-leverage automation opportunities.
• Improve system speed, reliability, and signal quality as usage scales.
• Contribute to foundational design decisions for a 0->1 agent platform.

Skills

Backend engineering

APIs

Distributed systems

Data modeling

Reliability

Fullstack systems

AI/ML

LLMs

Inference pipelines

Prototyping

Production-grade

Systems thinking

Observability

Ownership

Job description

Kraken, a leading crypto platform, is expanding the Agent Systems team, a 0->1 engineering group building AI-powered agents that automate internal workflows. You will operate at the intersection of AI and backend systems, delivering production-ready architectures while prototypes evolve toward scalable solutions.

You will collaborate with product, infra, and internal operations to ship agent-driven capabilities, improve speed and reliability, and define patterns for safe execution as usage grows.