We are open to hiring for this role at multiple levels, with compensation ranges scaled to match your experience, expertise, and the scope of the role.
🦸🏻♀️ What you'll do
Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure agent-driven services and systems that autonomously accomplish tasks using modern AI frameworks.
Develop and enhance robust infrastructure and high-throughput APIs, focusing on core agent capabilities such as memory, communication channels, skills, intelligent decision logic, security and workflow management.
Integrate agent capabilities with backend services, data stores, vector databases, search/retrieval systems, and external APIs.
Collaborate with product managers, AI researchers, data engineers, and UX teams to translate high-level agent use cases into robust, production-ready software.
Ensure reliability, monitoring, and observability for all agent components (metrics, logging, CI/CD, fault tolerance).
Contribute to architectural design decisions and participate in rigorous code reviews to uphold quality and maintainability.
⭐️ What you need
3+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong proficiency (3+ years) in Python in production environments
Proficiency in native agentic coding, demonstrated through the daily use of tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and other agentic coding platforms.
Demonstrated experience building distributed systems, microservices, or complex backend APIs that support AI/agent workflows.
Solid expertise with systems that integrate AI models, agent frameworks (e.g., Langraph, Agent Harness or platform-specific tooling), vector databases, and large context reasoning services.
Understanding of agent orchestration patterns, state management, and asynchronous workflows.
Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and operational engineering best practices.
Good grasp of performance optimization, testing frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a “connect + challenge + own” mindset.
Past work on AI agents that coordinate multi-step actions, reasoning, or autonomous decision-making loops.
Contributions to open-source agent toolkits or SDKs.
Experience with frontend technologies (React, TypeScript) for tooling around agent management interfaces.
🍩 Benefits & perks (US Full-time employees)
Generous PTO, plus company holidays
Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
Paid parental leave for all parents (16 weeks)
Fertility and family planning support
Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri https://www.galleri.com/partner/writer
Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options
Health savings account for eligible plans with company contribution
Annual work-life stipends for
Wellness stipend for gym, massage/chiropractor, personal training, etc.
Learning and development stipend
Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites
Competitive compensation, company stock options and 401k
WRITER is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to diversity. We don't make hiring or employment decisions based on race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law. Under the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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