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Staff Backend Engineer, Architecture Engineering: Nonlinear Productivity
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Remote, Canada; Remote, United States
Our take: The real work here is deciding what proven means for brand-new agentic systems, then owning a greenfield foundation from first commit while raising a whole team's bar.
This is for the engineer who wants to build agentic systems from the first commit and decide what proven actually means before anything ships. You will own a greenfield foundation with no product manager and no playbook, hunting down real friction across the software lifecycle and turning it into workflows that catch their own mistakes. If you love raising a whole team's bar through pairing and design reviews as much as your own output, and you enjoy the puzzle of code that looks correct but breaks under concurrency, this team was built for you.
Needs
- agentic systems design
- building llm systems
- evaluation frameworks
- finding real friction
- working across the codebase
- mentoring engineers
- greenfield ownership
Rewards
- automating toil away
- inventing from scratch
- raising the team bar
- work that ships to customers
- strategic incubation
Demands
- thriving in ambiguity
- early stage chaos
- learning new codebases
- calling and defending decisions
- presenting to leadership
Grows
- evaluating agent output
- agentic orchestration
- judging what stays human
- coaching by pairing
Values
- deciding what proven means
- ownership from day one
- autonomy
- human in the loop
- craftsmanship
Drains
- cross team roadmap syncs
- running hiring rounds
- stakeholder reporting
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