Stepwork · 1 day ago
Senior Software Engineer, Agent Platform
Stepwork is a company focused on automating repetitive tasks for IT teams by teaching software to interact with other software like a human. The Senior Software Engineer will work on building and improving the backend infrastructure and testing systems for their automation platform, ensuring high reliability and performance for enterprise customers.
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Responsibilities
Own real systems end-to-end, shipping quickly while maintaining reliability expected by enterprise customers
Building the execution environment for automation
Extend and harden the system, improving speed, reliability, and testability
Work on systems that test flows across multiple environments—real hardware, virtual machines, and cloud-hosted compute
Ensure workflows function correctly regardless of quirks in customer environments
Qualification
Required
4–10 years building production systems (fullstack or backend)
Strong backend engineering foundation (Go + TypeScript)
Infra experience with Docker, AWS, Terraform
Comfort with VM debugging, local-device constraints, or adjacent systems
Ability to pick up light frontend work when needed
Ownership: If you ship it, you own it, good and bad
Principled Problem Solving: You ask the right questions, avoid scope creep, and choose the simplest path that works
Persistence: Many problems you'll encounter don't have documentation. You enjoy figuring them out
Speed: You know how to ship quickly without overengineering
Disagree & Commit: You can push back, align, and move
Preferred
Experience working on Electron or similar desktop runtimes
Infra-heavy product experience
Previous work on early engineering teams