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AGI, Inc.

Backend Engineer

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In-Office
San Francisco, CA, USA
Senior level
In-Office
San Francisco, CA, USA
Senior level
As a Backend Engineer, you'll design, code, and ship full-stack features, integrate APIs, and ensure robust backend systems while collaborating closely with researchers and users.
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Think Different. Build the Future. 🚀

Our Mission

Build everyday AGI. Trustworthy, consumer-grade agents that redefine human–AI collaboration for millions. Software shouldn’t wait for commands; it should partner with you, amplifying what you can do every single day.

Why AGI, Inc.

We’re a stealth team of elite founders and AI researchers, with backgrounds spanning Stanford, OpenAI, and DeepMind. We’re industry leaders in mobile and computer-use agents, bringing these capabilities to consumer scale.

Grounded in years of agent research, our AI is designed with trustworthiness and reliability as core pillars, not afterthoughts.

We are supported by tier-1 investors who funded the first generation of AI giants; now they’re backing us to build the next: everyday AGI. (Watch the demo)

If you see possibility where others see limits, read on.

About the Role

You’ll be one of the very first engineers shaping our core product and reimagining how people integrate AI companions into their day-to-day workflows.


Expect to:

  • Think from zero. Whiteboard the concept in the morning and demo it by evening.

  • Own the stack. Backend, frontend, model orchestration, observability, whatever removes friction between idea and shipped product.

  • Bridge research and delight. Sit beside scientists, translate breakthroughs into polished consumer experiences, and push them to production in days, not quarters.

  • Define the bar. Establish the engineering, design, and reliability standards that every future hire will follow.

  • Move markets. Your features won’t live in a sandbox, they’ll redefine how everyday people trust and collaborate with AI.

You’ll be leading initiatives from conceptual design to production deployment, iterating quickly and putting real user feedback at the heart of product decisions.

Key Responsibilities
  • Craft end-to-end experiences: Design, code, and ship full-stack features, Python, TypeScript, Postgres, GPU infra, whatever it takes.

  • Design MCP schemas: Create flexible, extensible JSON-based models that represent property context, room types, policies, branding, and more.

  • Build internal and partner-facing APIs: Develop secure, scalable APIs that ingest, structure, and serve context to downstream AI agents.

  • Engineer for trust: Single-digit-ms paths, sandboxed execution, telemetry everywhere, four nines or it’s broken.

  • Invent agentic primitives: APIs, eval harnesses, and safety guardrails that let wild research ship to millions.

  • Listen, iterate, delight: Sit with users, absorb the pain, and turn feedback into joy fast.

You Bring
  • 5+ years building and operating production backend systems in fast-paced, product-driven teams; you’ve owned production SLAs and on-call for systems that matter.

  • Deep fundamentals in distributed systems (idempotency, exactly-/at-least-once, retries/backoff, queues, caching, consistency) and API design (REST/gRPC).

  • Fluency with building backends in Python, TypeScript/Node.js; write code that is observable, testable, and easy to extend.

  • Datastores: Postgres/MySQL schema design, indexing/transactions, plus Redis/Kafka (or similar) where it fits.

  • API integrations at scale: robust abstractions, retries/backoff, rate-limit handling, and data normalization

  • Working knowledge of LLM pipelines (embeddings, retrieval/vector stores, context windows) and tools like LangChain/OpenAI APIs.

  • Cloud & reliability: Docker/K8s, CI/CD, observability (metrics/logs/tracing), performance profiling, and basic security hardening.


Our Culture

🏢 All in, in person. Work moves faster face-to-face.
🚀 Ship by default. Novel and polished can coexist, speed is the feature.
🤝 One band, one sound. Radical candor, zero politics, help each other win.

Our perks

🏥 Competitive company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance.

✈️ Top-tier relocation and immigration support.

How to Apply

Send us:

  1. A link—or 60-sec video—of something you built and why it matters.

  2. Your resume or LinkedIn.

  3. Two sentences on the hardest problem you’ve cracked.

Every exceptional candidate hears back within 48 hours.

We can’t wait to see what you’ve got and to welcome you to the AGI Inc. team!

Top Skills

Cloud Deployment
JavaScript
Llm Pipelines
Postgres
Python
React
Relational Databases
Rest Api
Typescript
HQ

AGI, Inc. San Francisco, California, USA Office

1885 Mission St, San Francisco, CA , United States, 94103

AGI, Inc. San Francisco, California, USA Office

170 Saint Germain Ave, San Francisco, CA , United States, 94114

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