Senior Backend Engineer - AI Agents (Remote, Equity)

Mural Group; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 205,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Mural Group is a remote-friendly, late-stage enterprise AI company seeking a senior backend engineer to own the services behind its AI agents. Design and scale backend systems while collaborating with ML and frontend teams to deploy agents into production.

You will focus on cutting latency, improving reliability, and handling high-volume data securely. Requires 5+ years in backend engineering, API design, and cloud/microservices experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• gRPC and REST API design experience.
• SQL and NoSQL schema and query tuning.
• Kubernetes, Docker and microservices on AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Experience building AI or virtual agent systems.
• BS in Computer Science.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale the backend for agent products.
• Collaborate with ML and frontend engineers to bring agents into production.
• Cut latency and raise reliability on high-volume services.
• Handle large data volumes efficiently and safely.
• Share on-call for the services you own.

Skills

Backend engineering

API design

SQL/NoSQL tuning

Kubernetes & Docker

Cloud platforms

AI agent systems

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Mural Group is a remote-friendly, late-stage enterprise AI company seeking a senior backend engineer to own the services behind its AI agents. Design and scale backend systems while collaborating with ML and frontend teams to deploy agents into production.

You will focus on cutting latency, improving reliability, and handling high-volume data securely. Requires 5+ years in backend engineering, API design, and cloud/microservices experience.