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Senior / Staff Backend Engineer - AI Agents Platform (US)

HOAi • Palo Alto, CA

Company

HOAi

Annual salary

$210k – $300k/yr

Location

Palo Alto, CA

Listed

262d ago

Experience:
3+ years
Workplace:
Tuesday - Thursday in-office in Palo Alto, CA
Visa:
Visa sponsorship available
Equity:
Competitive equity in parent, Vantaca. Expected to take total annual comp to ~$350K - $450K and potentially higher for Staff level.

Hybrid in Palo Alto, CA. Visa sponsorship available.

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About this Role

We are looking for a Senior or Staff Backend Engineer with 6+ years of experience to join our AI Agents Platform team to help build our large-scale, highly reliable platform for vertical AI agents. We are seeking a product-minded engineer who is passionate about building scalable, high-performance systems and is excited to contribute to a platform that is revolutionizing an industry by deploying autonomous AI agents.

What you will do:

  • Own core backend services: Build and operate the agent runtime services (tool execution, state management, orchestration, retries, idempotency, rate limiting).

  • Design robust APIs and contracts: Develop stable, well-versioned APIs (internal + external), including webhook/event interfaces and integration adapters.

  • Model complex domain data: Design schemas and data access patterns that support agent memory/state, workflow history, audit trails, permissions, and multi-tenant isolation.

  • Integrations at scale: Implement and maintain high-quality integrations (OAuth, webhooks, sync engines, connectors) with strong observability and failure handling.

  • Platform performance and cost control: Optimize throughput/latency, queue backlogs, caching, storage, and inference/tool-call costs; build guardrails for runaway tasks.

  • Reliability engineering: Define and improve SLIs/SLOs, implement end-to-end tracing, build safety rails (timeouts, circuit breakers, budgets), and run incident response.

  • Raise engineering standards: Drive code quality, testing strategy, on-call hygiene, runbooks, postmortems, and mentoring.

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