Staff Backend Engineer for AI Agent Platform & Dashboards

Wand AI; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Wand AI is hiring a senior staff-level engineer in Palo Alto to lead the dashboard and connector-management product, focusing on a 60/40 backend/frontend split. You will own delivery end-to-end and work with LLM and retrieval-augmentation tech to enable agent-based workflows.

You will design scalable data pipelines, integrate with LangChain and vector stores, and collaborate with product and AI teams to deliver enterprise-grade dashboards and connectors for customers at scale.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python; willingness to work in additional languages as the stack evolves.
• Experience delivering enterprise UI projects.
• Experience with a modern frontend stack (React preferred).
• Comfortable owning a part of a roadmap and organizing and splitting work across a team.
• Proficiency in at least one cloud environment (GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Proven track record in a high-paced startup environment.
• Self-sufficiency across the stack, comfortable operating without dedicated DevOps support.
• Experience with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Design and build the dashboard and connector-management product end-to-end, including the control panel for connectors, metrics, and dashboards.
• Build enterprise-grade UIs on a modern frontend stack (React preferred), working closely with designers to turn client requirements into polished, usable interfaces.
• Own part of the roadmap: organize the work, split it across the team, and take ownership of delivery.
• Develop and maintain connectors to enterprise data sources (SaaS platforms, data warehouses, document stores, APIs).
• Build data pipelines that ingest, transform, and index customer data for use by AI agents.
• Integrate with LLM providers and related frameworks to deliver context-aware agent capabilities.
• Pull and process analytics data from customers' warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, etc.).
• Own projects end-to-end: from architecture and technical design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
• Collaborate with product and AI teams to translate retrieval quality into measurable agent performance improvements.
• Optimize retrieval pipelines for latency, relevance, and cost efficiency at scale.
• Uphold a culture of high efficiency, creativity, and quality.

Skills

Python

Frontend development

React

Cloud

Docker & Kubernetes

System architecture

Project ownership

Team collaboration

Communication

LangChain/LLM exposure

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Elasticsearch

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Redis

Snowflake

BigQuery

Databricks

LangChain

LLM APIs

Temporal

FastAPI

Job description

Wand AI is hiring a senior staff-level engineer in Palo Alto to lead the dashboard and connector-management product, focusing on a 60/40 backend/frontend split. You will own delivery end-to-end and work with LLM and retrieval-augmentation tech to enable agent-based workflows.

You will design scalable data pipelines, integrate with LangChain and vector stores, and collaborate with product and AI teams to deliver enterprise-grade dashboards and connectors for customers at scale.