AI Backend Engineer

About this role

Join Klarity as an AI Backend Engineer to build production-grade backend systems and distributed infrastructure powering multimodal AI agents for enterprise customers. You'll own features end-to-end, working at the intersection of applied AI and backend engineering while shipping quality products at high velocity alongside senior engineers.

What you'll do

• Design and build backend services, APIs, and data models that handle real-world enterprise data ingestion and orchestration
• Develop and ship AI agent workflows and orchestration systems that scale reliably in production
• Implement enterprise-grade security, observability, and performance standards across infrastructure
• Own meaningful features end-to-end from design through deployment and monitoring
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to translate ambitious AI capabilities into reliable systems
• Participate in architecture reviews and design decisions for distributed systems and AI platform components

What they're looking for

• Backend engineering (systems design, APIs, data models, infrastructure)
• Distributed systems thinking and architectural tradeoffs
• Production AI/LLM experience (agents, orchestration, evals, model testing)
• AI-native development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot)
• Observability and monitoring for complex systems
• Production code shipping experience
• Security and reliability engineering practices
• Systems thinking with forward-looking design sensibility

Benefits

• Pair with senior engineers for accelerated growth
• Own real features and meaningful infrastructure from day one
• Work on cutting-edge AI transformation problems at scale
• San Francisco Bay Area location with relocation assistance available
• Fast-moving, mission-driven Series B company (7x growth, $91M raised)
• Focus on both engineering fundamentals and rapid iteration