Senior Backend Engineer
3/30/2026
The role involves architecting and scaling high-concurrency backend services and distributed systems to power real-time decision-making for AI agents. Key tasks include engineering the backend for vector search and retrieval, developing resilient extraction systems, and integrating LLMs into the core product API.
Working Hours
40 hours/week
Company Size
51-200 employees
Language
English
Visa Sponsorship
No
ZyG is revolutionizing eCommerce with the first Agentic Operating System for eCom scale.
This end-to-end platform helps product inventors and entrepreneurs turn their products into successful Direct-to-Consumer businesses, addressing the three key challenges of eCom scale: poor product bets, lack of scale infrastructure, and the need for often-complex financing.
With a connected system of AI Agents built on a unified data infrastructure, the OS analyzes scale-market fit, replaces the fragmented tools, agencies, and manual workflows that typically power eCom growth, and offers the financing needed for DTC scale.
The Role
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to architect the high-performance backbone of ZyG.
You will build the Agentic Architecture- the distributed systems, task-orchestration layers, and real-time execution environments that allow AI agents to perceive the market and act autonomously
What you'll do
- Architect Agentic Service Infrastructure: Design and scale the high-concurrency backend services and distributed systems that power our AI agents' real-time decision-making.
- Build the RAG & Execution Engine: Engineer the backend services for vector search, context-aware retrieval, and the "memory" layers required for agentic workflows.
- Develop High-Performance Extraction Systems: Build resilient, distributed crawling and scraping services that function as the "sensory" input for our engine.
- System Orchestration: Manage the integration of LLMs and predictive models into the core product API, ensuring low-latency execution and high system reliability.
- Define Engineering Excellence: Establish backend architectural patterns, coding standards, and service-oriented best practices for the entire engineering team.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience: Deep expertise in Backend Engineering with a software-first approach to complex systems.
- AI-Native Workflow: You have a significant advantage if you leverage modern, agentic development environments like Claude Code to accelerate system design and iteration.
- The Tech Stack: Strong proficiency in building scalable services. While we value architectural skill over specific syntax, experience with Go (Golang) and GCP (BigQuery/Cloud Run/Postgres) is a major "force multiplier" for our stack.
- Agentic Systems Knowledge: Familiarity with the infrastructure needed for LLMs, Vector Databases, and RAG-based application logic.
- Architectural Ownership: You excel at taking a high-level business need and designing the full-stack service architecture required to solve it.
Advantages
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