Staff Backend Engineer - AI-Native Orchestration

Town; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Town in San Francisco is looking for a backend engineer to develop an AI-powered assistant that understands user needs and executes tasks reliably across multiple tools. You will work on LLM orchestration, design key infrastructure, and be a foundational team member during a high-growth period.

Ideally, you have experience with infrastructure level challenges, can define technical direction, and are excited to work in-person five days a week. If you thrive on solving complex problems and shaping the future of AI, this could be the role for you.

Qualifications

• Experience building and scaling backend systems during high-growth.
• Comfortable defining technical direction in ambiguous environments.
• Ability to think in systems, including distributed systems and APIs.
• Familiarity with real-time AI workloads in production.

Responsibilities

• Work on LLM orchestration and workflow execution.
• Build multi-provider LLM infrastructure.
• Design the identity and knowledge layer.
• Define service ownership.

Skills

Backend systems scaling

Defining technical direction

Systems thinking

AI-native coding workflows

LLM infrastructure experience

Job description

Town in San Francisco is looking for a backend engineer to develop an AI-powered assistant that understands user needs and executes tasks reliably across multiple tools. You will work on LLM orchestration, design key infrastructure, and be a foundational team member during a high-growth period.

Ideally, you have experience with infrastructure level challenges, can define technical direction, and are excited to work in-person five days a week. If you thrive on solving complex problems and shaping the future of AI, this could be the role for you.