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An AI-native startup in New York runs a platform of autonomous agents that dig up findings for its users. It is hiring a senior product engineer to serve as a dependable anchor for a small group made up largely of specialists, working across the stack with little oversight.

Scope

Grow the agent platform’s infrastructure, improving its reliability, orchestration and speed as workloads multiply

Take charge of the system that records, de-duplicates and organizes what the agents discover so users and the agents themselves can follow up later

Collaborate with product, design, AI engineers, frontend and sales colleagues to understand customer needs and convert them into features

Steer how data is modeled and how fast queries run in PostgreSQL and ClickHouse as volumes rise

Lead features from problem framing through production, including analytics usable by both people and agents, an MCP server and agent tooling

Establish and uphold norms for quality of code, the design of APIs (versioning, compatibility guarantees) and schema design

Ideal background

Three to six years running production backend systems, with solid PostgreSQL skills and a good grasp of data modeling

Comfortable contributing backend and frontend code roughly equally without being a frontend specialist

Record of owning meaningful projects and shipping them end to end

Bachelor’s degree, computer science preferred

Plus: shipped LLM-based, chatbot or agent features, built MCP servers, or established engineering practices while at an early-stage company

Python, FastAPI and AWS familiarity

On-site in New York, NY. No visa sponsorship or transfers available.