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Demand.io · 1 week ago

Staff Backend Engineer (AI & Knowledge Systems)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$250K/yr - $360K/yr

Demand.io is a profitable, founder-led consumer AI commerce player driving over $1 billion in annual GMV. They are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to operate as a Technical Lead & Systems Architect, responsible for architecting the neuro-symbolic intelligence engine and setting technical standards for the engineering team.

E-CommerceRetail TechnologyWeb3

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Architect and build the intelligent, fault-tolerant backend for our Commerce Knowledge Graph

Design distributed ingestion pipelines that process millions of data points, ensuring our AI agents have access to high-fidelity, verified structured data

Design and implement high-performance, real-time APIs (gRPC, REST) optimized for Agent-to-Agent communication

Lead the technical design of event-driven systems that verify data truth at scale

Replace manual heuristics with deterministic logic and LLM-driven workflows, creating a self-healing data ecosystem

Create the Living Technical Blueprints and schematic designs that serve as the source of truth for both human engineers and AI collaborators

Qualification

Cloud-NativeAI-FluentDistributed SystemsTechnical ArchitectureGCPKubernetesEvent-Driven SystemsFirst-Principles ThinkingExtreme Agency

Required

You are a Staff-Level Architect

You have graduated from 'how do I build this?' to 'should we build this, and how will it scale in 3 years?'

You proactively identify technical debt and architectural risks before they become blockers

You are a First-Principles Thinker

You reject 'playbook' reasoning

You deconstruct problems to their fundamental technical constraints and build up from there, rather than relying on lazy analogies

You are Cloud-Native

You have deep, hands-on experience scaling applications on GCP using Kubernetes and serverless patterns

You understand the nuances of distributed systems

You possess Extreme Agency

You do not wait for permission

You feel a deep, personal responsibility for the quality and resilience of your systems

You are a self-starter who creates momentum

You are AI-Fluent

You see AI not just as a tool, but as a foundational layer of the stack

You understand how to architect systems that integrate with Large Language Models and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows

Benefits

100% premium coverage for you and your family

Daily catered lunches

Unlimited PTO that we actually expect you to use to recharge

Company

Demand.io

Demand.io is a network of shopping platforms & experiences that create greater alignment between brands, consumers and creators.

Founded in 2009

Los Angeles, California, USA

51-200 employees

https://demand.io

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