Backend Architect for Agentic AI Platform (Remote)

Flexhire; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Fully remote with in-person milestones

Job summary

Awear is building the backend fabric for the next generation of computing, with a stealth startup team focused on AI agent platforms. We offer meaningful equity and a fully remote role with occasional in‑person milestones in Silicon Valley or Paris.

You’ll join a lean team to architect the core backend and privacy architecture from the ground up. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in backend engineering for AI platforms, strong Python (FastAPI) skills, and experience with real‑time systems and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally in consumer AI, real‑time systems, or platform infrastructure.
• Strong Python — FastAPI, async patterns, production‑grade API design.
• Real‑time communication experience — WebSockets, SSE, gRPC, or similar.
• PostgreSQL or comparable relational database experience at scale.
• Strong familiarity with security and encryption protocols and standards.
• Cloud deployment experience on GCP or AWS with Kubernetes.
• Active user of AI‑assisted development tools with a genuine point of view on how to use them well.
• Strong written English and proven remote collaboration skills.
• Strong plus: LLM integration experience, E2E encryption or privacy‑preserving architecture, edge computing awareness, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD

Responsibilities

• Build the backend infrastructure powering our Agentic OS — the agent runtime, memory and context layer, LLM routing, and privacy architecture.
• Collaborate with the CEO and a small engineering team across Silicon Valley and Paris.
• Ship working software by leveraging AI development tools as a core part of workflow.
• Contribute to platform decisions with focus on reliability and security.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

Real-time systems

WebSocket

gRPC

PostgreSQL

Security

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

Kubernetes

Remote collaboration

Tools

Cursor

Claude

Copilot

Job description

Awear is building the backend fabric for the next generation of computing, with a stealth startup team focused on AI agent platforms. We offer meaningful equity and a fully remote role with occasional in‑person milestones in Silicon Valley or Paris.

You’ll join a lean team to architect the core backend and privacy architecture from the ground up. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in backend engineering for AI platforms, strong Python (FastAPI) skills, and experience with real‑time systems and