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Backend Engineer
Here's everything you need to get a real sense of the role, the work, and why we think this might just be the best move you make.
About the role
You'll own problems, not tickets
A Backend Engineer at Gradient Labs is a senior, experienced individual contributor — the kind of engineer who doesn't just build systems, but shapes how we build them.
You own ambiguous, high-complexity problems end to end: from scoping and design through to shipping and observing in production. You think in systems — resilient, scalable, and debuggable under pressure — and you leave the codebase meaningfully better than you found it.
You're a force multiplier. You level up engineers around you through mentorship, sharp feedback, and by setting the technical bar. Your influence reaches across teams, and the decisions you make today shape Gradient's architecture for years to come.
The day-to-day
Build the OS for AI Agents
Contribute to a safe, scalable platform that lets us iterate on autonomous agent capabilities faster than anyone else.
Ship Resilient Systems
Design and own systems that hold up under failures, retry storms, and resource starvation — with full observability baked in.
Move Fast, Ship Often
Iterate in small increments. Multiple deploys a day. Comfort with ambiguity is not optional — it's the job.
Our tech stack
Anthropic
OpenAI
GCP
Encore
Temporal
PostgreSQL
Go
What we're looking for
Here's who thrives in this role
Opinions held, not fixed
You hold strong opinions loosely and thrive on greenfield work.
You've been here before
You have Staff-level experience (or equivalent) at a tech scale-up.
Excited by what's coming
You're genuinely excited by agentic AI and where it's headed.
You raise everyone's game
You make the engineers around you sharper and better.