Backend Engineer for AI-Powered Discovery

Wanderboat AI; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Wanderboat AI in Sunnyvale, CA is hiring engineers to build the platform behind our AI-powered discovery products. You will own core backend systems, scalable APIs, data pipelines, and the infrastructure powering AI Agents and retrieval workflows.

Join a high-ownership role where you move fast, ship often, and directly impact product quality and user experiences. You will work with product and engineering to improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across our stack.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend or full-stack engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python or Go.
• Experience building and operating production systems on AWS.
• Strong fundamentals in databases, distributed systems, containers, and deployment workflows.
• Familiarity with modern AI application architectures (RAG, tool calling, AI Agents, or LLM orchestration).
• Comfortable with ambiguity, fast iteration, and high ownership.
• Strong interest in AI and building ambitious new products.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate scalable backend systems and APIs.
• Develop infrastructure and services that support AI products in production.
• Build infrastructure and services powering AI Agents with planning, tool use, memory, and workflow automation.
• Develop backend systems for LLM-powered applications (retrieval, recommendation, AI-driven UX).
• Build and optimize retrieval pipelines and agent workflows for better accuracy, latency, and scalability.
• Build data ingestion systems, crawlers, and pipeline components.
• Work on discovery systems like search, ranking, recommendation, and personalization.
• Improve performance, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency across the stack.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to ship quickly and iterate often.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Go

AWS

Distributed systems

Databases

Containers

CI/CD

LLM architectures

AI applications

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Vector databases

LLM orchestration

Job description

Wanderboat AI in Sunnyvale, CA is hiring engineers to build the platform behind our AI-powered discovery products. You will own core backend systems, scalable APIs, data pipelines, and the infrastructure powering AI Agents and retrieval workflows.

Join a high-ownership role where you move fast, ship often, and directly impact product quality and user experiences. You will work with product and engineering to improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across our stack.