Reacher

Reacher

Software Engineer

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 252 days ago
PythonFastAPICode ReviewGitPostgreSQLGCPCloud PlatformsAPI DevelopmentGraphQLRESTLLMsAgentic AIAI OrchestrationPlaywrightpytest5G/LTE

About the role

  • We've crossed 7 figures in ARR and are backed byY Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Rebel Fund, and operators including Steve Huffman (CEO of Reddit), Matteo Franceschetti (CEO of Eight Sleep), Theo Browne ( t3.gg ).
  • We're making a big bet on AI agents and what they can do for creator marketing.
  • This role is meant to be close to the founding team.

Responsibilities

  • Build and own long-running AI agents that automate complex, multi-step workflows for TikTok Shop brands.
  • Design agentic systems end-to-end: orchestration, state management, error recovery, and observability.
  • Own the backend systems your agents run on - design, implement, ship, maintain. Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, GCP.
  • Contribute to our jobs infrastructure (GKE-based, on-demand workers) as needed to support agent reliability and scale.
  • Strong systems thinking, but applied toward agent reliability and workflow design, not just raw infra
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and own problems end-to-end without hand-holding

Nice to have

  • Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, GCP.
  • Set the bar for code quality and architecture decisions across the backend.
  • 3+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally at a product-first company
  • You've built automation, agents, or complex async systems - and you think deeply about failure modes

Skills

  • AI and Agentic Development:
  • Claude Code proficiency: context engineering ( CLAUDE.md ), custom commands, MCP integrations, subagent coordination
  • Strong judgment for when to leverage AI vs. when to code directly
  • Ability to decompose complex engineering work into tasks suitable for AI assistance
  • Experience verifying AI-generated code for correctness, security, and maintainability
  • Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL
  • API design (REST/GraphQL)
  • Testing frameworks (Playwright, Pytest) - especially for validating agent behavior end-to-end
  • Code reviews, documentation, and establishing conventions
  • Bonus Points
  • You've been an early engineering hire at a startup
  • You've built or maintained internal automation systems that ran at scale

Compensation

  • Real equity, we care about it as much as salary

Benefits

  • Real equity, we care about it as much as salary

Company info

  • You've worked directly with customers or product teams and can translate vague requirements into technical decisions

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