Hiring: Backend Software Engineer Company: Zof AI Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-02 17:59:19 Employment Type: Full-time, Mid-level, On-site Target Skills & Keywords: Backend Engineering, APIs, Distributed Systems, Postgres, Reliability, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Job Orchestration, Queueing, Event-Driven Architecture Experience: - Experience building and shipping backend services in production - Experience as a Backend Software Engineer, API Engineer, Platform Engineer, or Distributed Systems Engineer - Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, or streaming pipelines (nice to have) - Experience with cloud platforms, containers, and CI/CD (nice to have) - Experience supporting AI or agent workloads in production (nice to have) Required Skills: - Strong software engineering foundation - Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL, ideally Postgres - Familiarity with APIs, queues, and asynchronous job processing - Ability to debug performance and correctness issues in running systems - Habit of proving work with tests and evidence before shipping - Clear written and verbal communication - Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment - Daily hands-on use of AI coding agents to design, build, and debug backend systems - Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Postgres, or similar technologies (nice to have) Qualifications: - Design, build, and operate the services and APIs agent fleets run on - Build job orchestration and queueing for long-running agent work - Own Postgres schema design, migrations, and query performance as data grows - Ship storage and retrieval paths for evidence and traces every agent run produces - Instrument services so failures are observable, debuggable, and recoverable - Harden reliability with testing, retries, idempotency, and backpressure under real load - Partner with product and AI engineers to turn agent behavior into stable interfaces - Own backend systems from design through production Compensation: - Competitive salary - Plus meaningful equity Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don’t miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!