Staff Backend & Frontend Engineer — AI-Driven Platform

Wand AI; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Wand AI is hiring a hands-on staff-level engineer for a full-stack role focused on the dashboard and connector-management product that powers its AI agents. You will own end-to-end delivery, shaping architecture and roadmap while collaborating with design and product teams.

The position emphasizes backend work (roughly 60%) with a strong frontend component, requires 10+ years of experience, and demands comfort with enterprise-grade UIs, Docker/Kubernetes, and cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or 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 (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.

Skills

10+ years engineering experience

Python

Enterprise UI delivery

Frontend stack (React)

Cloud environments (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Roadmap ownership

Production systems experience

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Wand AI is hiring a hands-on staff-level engineer for a full-stack role focused on the dashboard and connector-management product that powers its AI agents. You will own end-to-end delivery, shaping architecture and roadmap while collaborating with design and product teams.

The position emphasizes backend work (roughly 60%) with a strong frontend component, requires 10+ years of experience, and demands comfort with enterprise-grade UIs, Docker/Kubernetes, and cloud environments.