Qualified is hiring a Software Engineer, Backend - Product to tackle complex technical challenges by building exceptional products and enhancing processes. You will integrate LLMs, embeddings, and AI technologies into our offerings, with a strong focus on scaling infrastructure for reliable AI agent execution in asynchronous environments.
What You'll Do
- Develop customer-focused applications by building new features, improving existing ones, and creating entirely new products.
- Utilize the latest advances in machine learning, LLMs and other AI technologies to enhance products and deliver reliable, scalable systems.
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Product Designers, and Platform Engineers to ideate and develop mission-critical applications.
- Conduct rapid prototyping and iterative development to enhance AI solutions based on real-world performance and user feedback.
- Ensure core functionality is stable, scalable, well-maintained, and continuously improving.
- Design and evolve system architecture to support scalable, reliable AI agent execution in asynchronous environments.
- Scale and harden infrastructure for high-throughput workloads, including queueing, scheduling, backpressure, retries, and robust observability.
- Build and operate event-driven services using queues/streams and reliable message processing patterns.
- Continuously grow technical skills to tackle toughest challenges related to quality, performance, robustness, and reliability.
- Contribute to team’s culture and future by mentoring other engineers and setting standards of engineering excellence.
- Support and scale highly-available, highly-trafficked services essential for customers' time-sensitive, business-critical needs.
What We're Looking For
- 4+ years of experience in professional full-stack software development.
- Expertise in working with all components of a modern web application.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Python, or Go.
- Proficiency in object-oriented programming, systems design, and working with large-scale, low-latency systems.
- Experience designing system architecture for scalable, resilient services and AI agent orchestration in asynchronous environments.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, asynchronous processing, and backpressure strategies.
- Experience with distributed and event-based systems.
- Experience working with SQL and RDBMS (PostgreSQL preferred) and data warehousing solutions.
- Strong software engineering practices, including coding, unit testing, code reviews, and design documentation.
- B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience).
- Passionate about crafting innovative, scalable solutions, solving intricate technical problems, and making a tangible impact.
- Highly curious about engineering beyond immediate discipline with a desire to stay at the cutting edge of applied AI.
- Driven by the challenge of creating elegant, intuitive, and robust products.
- Self-directed, independent, and experienced in owning complete features and products.
- Fearless in stepping outside comfort zone to tackle various challenges and opportunities.
- Proactive in sharing thoughts and input; values open communication.
- Experience working with Agile methodologies.
Nice to Have
- Recent focus on leveraging AI/ML technologies.
- Experience using frontier-scale LLMs (e.g., GPT, Claude, Gemini) programmatically for developing applications in production environments.
Technical Stack
- Ruby on Rails
- JavaScript
- Python
- Go
- PostgreSQL
Team & Environment
You will be working within a Product Team.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
