Backend Systems Engineer: AI Platform & APIs

Tasklet

San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Tasklet is building the AI platform companies use to run their business on agents. A customer describes an outcome in plain English, and Tasklet gets the work done across their tools and systems—immediately or in the cloud 24×7. This role is mostly backend and hands‑on.

This is a full‑time, in‑person position at our office at 1 Post St. in San Francisco, where you’ll design backend APIs, data models, and systems that scale as Tasklet grows.

Qualifications

  • Strong CS fundamentals are essential.
  • Ability to turn product needs into clean primitives and abstractions.
  • Experience with production software and debugging complex systems.

Responsibilities

  • Build backend APIs and services powering Tasklet’s product.
  • Develop core systems for identity, agents, sharing, permissions, billing, payments, analytics.
  • Build infrastructure for connectors, authentication, webhooks, automations, and integrations.
  • Design simple abstractions and data models for a fast-changing product.
  • Own systems in production and improve correctness, security, reliability, and ops.
  • Work across the stack and across role boundaries to solve problems.

Skills

CS fundamentals
Problem solving
System design
Abstraction
Debugging

Job description

Tasklet is building the AI platform companies use to run their business on agents. A customer describes an outcome in plain English, and Tasklet gets the work done across their tools and systems—immediately or in the cloud 24×7. This role is mostly backend and hands‑on.

This is a full‑time, in‑person position at our office at 1 Post St. in San Francisco, where you’ll design backend APIs, data models, and systems that scale as Tasklet grows.

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