AI Agent Engineer

XtendOps, Inc.; Cebu City; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

XtendOps is hiring a backend engineer to own AI agent workflows end to end. You will design, build, and wire integrations for agents that operate across live customer traffic, focusing on production-grade backend systems.

You'll work with TypeScript/Node.js, implement tool calls and MCP-like patterns, and deploy via Docker on cloud platforms. Strong English communication and fast iteration are essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building production backend software with TypeScript and Node.js.
• Hands-on experience building LLM agents that call tools.
• Practical experience with MCP or equivalent tool-integration patterns.
• Solid REST API integration experience against third-party systems.
• Comfortable with Docker and at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Git, testing and code review as normal working habits.
• Clear written communication in English.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship AI agents end to end, from design through production.
• Design and implement the tools and MCP servers agents call, including schemas and descriptions used by models.
• Integrate third-party APIs and internal services behind those tools — auth, retries, rate limits, idempotency.
• Write and iterate the agent instructions that drive behaviour.
• Configure the agent loop: model selection, turn limits, reasoning effort, tool permissions.
• Debug agent behaviour in production and deploy with Docker to cloud runtimes.
• Add new features and integrations to live agents without breaking existing ones.
• Explain how an agent works to internal teams and occasionally to clients' engineers.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

LLM agents

REST APIs

Docker

Cloud platforms

Git & code review

English communication

Tools

Docker

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

About the role

XtendOps builds AI agents that handle real work for enterprise clients — reading incoming requests, deciding what to do, calling tools across the client's systems, and either acting or preparing work for a human to approve. These agents run against live customer traffic every day.

You will own one or more of them outright: design the flow, build the tools, wire the integrations, ship it, and keep improving it. This is a backend engineering role — we build systems around models, we don't train them.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and ship AI agents end to end, from design through production

• Design and implement the tools and MCP servers agents call, including schemas and descriptions that models use correctly

• Integrate third-party APIs and internal services behind those tools — auth, retries, rate limits, idempotency

• Write and iterate the agent instructions that drive behaviour

• Configure the agent loop: model selection, turn limits, reasoning effort, tool permissions

• Debug agent behaviour in production — wrong tool, wrong arguments, no tool call, early stop - Deploy with Docker to cloud runtimes and instrument runs so they can be debugged after the fact

• Add new features and integrations to live agents without breaking what's already running

• Explain how an agent works to internal teams and, occasionally, to a client's engineers

About you

• 3+ years building production backend software, with strong TypeScript and Node.js

• Hands-on experience building LLM agents that call tools — any framework (Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI, LangChain/LangGraph, Vercel AI SDK, or your own loop)

• Practical experience with MCP or equivalent tool-integration patterns

• Solid REST API integration experience against third-party systems

• Comfortable with Docker and at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP or Azure)

• Git, testing and code review as normal working habits

• Makes decisions and takes initiative. You choose the model, the flow and the tool surface without being told, flag problems nobody has noticed yet, and propose fixes — including to infrastructure you don't own

• Clear written communication in English

Nice to have

• Claude Agent SDK or the Anthropic API in production

• Writing MCP servers, not just consuming them

• Evaluating LLM output systematically — test sets, regression checks, eval harnesses

• AWS hands-on: ECS/Fargate, Lambda, IAM, DynamoDB

• Customer service platforms — Gladly, Zendesk, Salesforce, Amazon Connect

• Python for data work