Senior Engineer — Backend Platform & AI Systems

Vantaca; Wilmington (NC); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

Unlimited PTO

401(k) with company match

Remote work flexibility

Generous parental leave benefits

Job summary

Vantaca, LLC in Wilmington, NC is looking for a skilled engineer to build and maintain backend systems for AI agents. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in engineering, a strong understanding of distributed systems, and robust API design skills.

Benefits include medical coverage from day one, unlimited PTO, and remote work flexibility with occasional office visits. Join us to help define and own outcomes that affect real communities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience building high-performing applications.
• Strong background in distributed systems, concurrency, and caching.
• Experience with Postgres or SQL Server, migrations, and query optimization.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate backend systems for AI agents.
• Design robust APIs and model complex domain data.
• Define SLIs/SLOs and implement tracing for agent workloads.

Skills

Engineering experience

Distributed systems

Relational data modeling

API design

Polyglot experience

LLM orchestration

Agent architecture

Event-driven patterns

Job description

Company Overview

Vantaca is a cloud‑native, AI‑powered community management platform that automates routine work and delivers actionable insights to community associations.

What You’ll Own

Platform & Agent Systems

• Build and operate backend systems powering AI agents in production: tool execution, state management, orchestration, retries, idempotency, and rate limiting
• Design robust, agent‑friendly APIs as interfaces for internal and external consumers
• Model complex domain data — agent memory/state, workflow history, audit trails, permissions, multi‑tenant isolation
• Implement high‑quality integrations (OAuth, webhooks, sync engines, connectors) with strong observability and failure handling
• Define SLIs/SLOs, implement end‑to‑end tracing, build circuit breakers and cost guardrails for agent workloads
• Optimize throughput, latency, queue backlogs, caching, and storage as the platform scales
• Drive engineering standards: code quality, testing strategy, on‑call hygiene, runbooks, and postmortems

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of engineering experience building high‑performant applications
• Deep fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, queuing/workers, caching, and production operations
• Strong relational data modeling: Postgres or SQL Server, migrations, indexing, query optimization, and correctness at scale
• API design discipline – clear, evolvable contracts across services and external partners
• Polyglot experience with TypeScript, Python, or equivalent cloud‑native tooling
• LLM orchestration experience: prompting, tool calling, evals, latency/cost tradeoffs
• Agent architecture familiarity: orchestration patterns, planning/execution loops, memory/state, sandboxed tool execution
• Experience with message‑based architectures or equivalent event‑driven patterns

You’ll Thrive Here If

• You’re energized by the business problems you’re solving and you want to define, design, and own outcomes end‑to‑end
• You build in quality and ship fast without sacrificing reliability or security
• You hold a high bar for data integrity and correctness as the systems we build affect real communities at scale
• You love winning as a team

Culture & Values

• Always Growing: Find new ways to improve knowledge and product; learn quickly and help the team grow.
• Win as a Team: Build trust and work together; communicate well; celebrate successes together.
• Accountability Starts with Me: Notice problems and take personal action to solve them.
• Unwavering Commitment to Customer Experience: Understand customer needs and improve processes.
• Innovate Boldly: Challenge the status quo and push boundaries to create meaningful change.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision starting day one
• Unlimited PTO (employees must take at least one continuous week per year)
• 401(k) with company match
• Remote work flexibility with occasional office visits
• Generous parental leave benefits