Staff Backend Engineer (Full Stack), Context Management

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

Build the Future Workforce

Wand turns AI into labor. It enables humans and AI agents to operate together as a unified, hybrid workforce, with comprehensive management and oversight. And it’s already operating at scale inside some of the world’s largest organizations.

Wand built the world’s first Agentic Labor Infrastructure enabling governments and global enterprises to create, manage, and scale digital workforces.

Our mission is to integrate agent ecosystems into the core of work and business, unlocking a generational leap in the global economy. We’re building the infrastructure that lets humans and AI agents operate together safely, transparently, and at scale.

Join Wand in leading the Agentic Shift

Wand is building a high-performing global team who take full ownership of what they build. We lead by example, move fast, make data-aware decisions, and continuously push for more- always with a focus on delivering real value to customers.

You would be joining a world-class team that combines deep research expertise and real-world product execution, with experience spanning Deepmind, Google, Amazon, Miro, Elise AI, IBM and Accern.

Position Summary

This role is ideal for a hands-on staff-level engineer with 10+ years of experience who is primarily a strong backend engineer but is also competent across the frontend. This is a full-stack, product-focused role (roughly 60% backend, 40% frontend) building the dashboard and connector-management product: the control panel for connectors, metrics, and dashboards that powers our AI agents. Most of the work is on the backend, with the frontend building enterprise-grade UIs in close collaboration with designers. You will own a part of the roadmap end-to-end, organize the work, split it across the team, and take ownership of delivery. Toward the end of the year, more agent capabilities will be folded into this product, including agents that build connectors themselves.

Our Tech Stack Includes

• Backend: Python, FastAPI, BlackSheep, Temporal
• Data & Search: Elasticsearch, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, Snowflake
• AI/ML: OpenAI, LangChain, LangGraph, LiteLLM, Docling
• Messaging: RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Cloud & Infra: Azure, 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 (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex) 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.

Key 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).

Preferred Experience

• Background in building enterprise SaaS integrations or source connectors at scale.
• Background working on enterprise configurations, features, dashboards, or a developer platform (e.g., at a company like Miro), spanning client requirements, UI, and backend.
• Experience with RAG (retrieval-augmented generation).
• Experience building AI agents.
• Hands-on experience with search technologies (Elasticsearch, vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, or similar).
• Solid understanding of embeddings, semantic search, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns.
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows.
• Familiarity with at least one major data warehouse platform (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift).
• Experience working with LLM APIs and agent frameworks in production.
• Experience with chunking strategies, re-ranking models, and hybrid retrieval approaches.
• Experience on search, information retrieval, or data engineering.
• Familiarity with data governance, access control, and multi-tenant data architectures.
• Contributions to open-source search or retrieval projects.
• Experience with production systems serving enterprise customers.

Personal Characteristics

• Strong individual contributor comfortable owning major projects with minimal oversight.
• Thinks architecturally: balances long-term design quality with startup speed.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Continuous drive for improvement and innovation.