Staff Backend Engineer - AI Platform Lead (Remote)

Quo; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical coverage

Monthly lifestyle stipend

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Quo is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead the AI Agent Platform team, owning the architecture and running the platform behind Quo’s AI agents. You’ll shape how agents are built and executed, influencing how customers experience AI across the product.

You’ll drive cross-team collaboration, design robust systems, and mentor engineers as you scale orchestration from multiple subagents to hours‑long tasks. This is a remote‑first role with impact across all US locations.

Qualifications

• Experience building and scaling backend services for real users.
• Shipped LLM-powered systems in production, ideally an agent platform.
• Strong in TypeScript and Node; other backend languages acceptable.

Responsibilities

• Own the agent platform architecture and execution engine.
• Build orchestration for multi-subagent setups and long-running tasks.
• Design memory and self-learning to improve agents over time.
• Drive scale, performance, reliability, and cost of agent execution as usage grows.
• Create clear docs and good defaults to enable other teams to use the platform.
• Mentor engineers through reviews and hands-on coaching.
• Stay current with LLMs and agent tooling and translate learnings into roadmaps.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

LLM

System architecture

Backend scalability

Tools

Temporal

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Job description

Quo is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead the AI Agent Platform team, owning the architecture and running the platform behind Quo’s AI agents. You’ll shape how agents are built and executed, influencing how customers experience AI across the product.

You’ll drive cross-team collaboration, design robust systems, and mentor engineers as you scale orchestration from multiple subagents to hours‑long tasks. This is a remote‑first role with impact across all US locations.