Backend Engineer

Zof AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

MacBook Pro

Premium AI development tools

Wellness and productivity support

Job summary

Zof AI is seeking a backend-focused engineer to design and operate services, APIs, and data layers for agent fleets, with emphasis on job orchestration and queueing.

You will own the Postgres schema design and implement storage paths for evidence and validation artefacts, collaborating across teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Requires professional experience shipping backend services in production with a strong foundation in relational databases and SQL.
• Candidates must be proficient in debugging performance issues and comfortable using AI coding agents in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate the services, APIs, and data layers that support agent fleets, focusing on job orchestration and queueing.
• Own the Postgres schema design and implement storage paths for evidence and validation artefacts.

Skills

Backend Engineering

API Design

Distributed Systems

Job Orchestration

Queueing

Asynchronous Processing

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

Event-driven Architecture

CI/CD

Cloud Platforms

Reliability Engineering

SQL

Postgres

Tools

Postgres

SQL

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

CI/CD

Cloud Platforms

Event-driven Architecture

Job description

Design and operate the services, APIs, and data layers that support agent fleets, focusing on job orchestration and queueing. Own the Postgres schema design and implement storage paths for evidence and validation artefacts.

Requirements:

Requires professional experience shipping backend services in production with a strong foundation in relational databases and SQL. Candidates must be proficient in debugging performance issues and comfortable using AI coding agents in a fast-paced environment.

Key Skills:

• Backend Engineering
• API Design
• Distributed Systems
• Postgres
• Job Orchestration
• Queueing
• SQL
• Asynchronous Processing
• TypeScript
• Node.js
• Python
• Event-driven Architecture
• CI/CD
• Cloud Platforms
• Reliability Engineering

Benefits:

• Meaningful equity
• MacBook Pro
• Premium AI development tools
• Wellness and productivity support