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Intermediate Backend Engineer, Platform Readiness
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Remote, Canada; Remote, United States
Our take: The real work here is building backend and agentic tooling that catches platform readiness issues early, by translating team expertise into structured, well-tested requirements.
You will build the tooling that stops platform compatibility surprises before they cost a team weeks of rework, contributing to agentic workflows and a growing requirements knowledge base. This is a genuine growth seat: you learn the schemas, flows, and integration surfaces from engineers and leads while shipping concrete, high-impact work. If you like backend engineering with a foot in AI systems, and you enjoy making the plain structure under a mess of requirements, you will feel at home here.
Needs
- building backend software
- integrating agent systems
- schema and structured content
- writing tests and docs
- reasoning about failures
- translating team expertise
- tinkering with llm apis
- cross-team collaboration
Rewards
- learning agentic workflows
- ai systems design
- observability instincts
- synthesising requirements
- improving validation tooling
Demands
- async written comms
- clear plain writing
- high-stakes shipping
- protected focus time
Grows
- learning agentic workflows
- ai systems design
- observability instincts
- synthesising requirements
- improving validation tooling
Values
- ai as multiplier
- mission driven
- learning culture
- developer experience
- working in the open
- rigour in evaluation
Drains
- writing evaluations
- schema upkeep
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