Back to jobs
A

Founding Lead Software Engineer - Backend

Berlin, DEUPosted 25 months ago
Full-timehybrid

Job Description

About Us:

Agenta is an open-source LLM developer platform that builds AI applications powered by Large Language Models (LLMs). We streamline each step of the development lifecycle, enabling teams to develop reliable LLM-powered apps more quickly.

Our product equips teams with necessary tools for collaboration and building reliable LLM applications: prompt management, evaluation and testing, and observability and monitoring.

Visit our GitHub repository: https://github.com/Agenta-AI/agenta

About the Role:

As our fourth engineering hire, you will have full ownership over major product features. You will play a significant role in shaping our engineering team's culture and work closely with the founders.

Our Stack:

Our backend uses Python+FastAPI, with MongoDB (and potentially Clickhouse) for our database. We use NextJS+React for our frontend and manage deployments with Kubernetes and Docker Compose for management. Our stack primarily runs on AWS using Terraform. You can check out our code at https://github.com/Agenta-AI/agenta

Why Join Us:

  • Your work will significantly impact our customers.
  • You will help build the company and product's foundation.
  • There are massive growth opportunities, not only technically but also professionally.
  • Public work exposure through contributions and collaborations on open-source projects.

Sample Projects for the First Few Months:

  • Designing a scalable observability architecture for tracing LLM calls and integrating it with OTel.
  • Optimizing and enhancing the latency of our observability dashboard for analytics.
  • Improving the design of our SDK for prompt management.


About You:

  • You have 5+ years of experience in software development and broad knowledge in various technologies (AWS, CI/CD, Kubernetes…).
  • Python is your second language
  • You're a 10x Engineer, considered a top engineer in your previous roles.
  • You possess excellent communication skills, both written and spoken.

Bonus Points:

  • Experience in founding a startup or working in an early-stage startup.
  • Experience in ML and building LLM applications.
  • DevOps or infrastructure experience.
  • Some frontend development knowledge (React, NextJS).

Our Company Culture

Hard Work Makes a Difference:

  • While working extensive hours doesn't guarantee success, working too few can lead to failure. We value our work ethic and believe it makes a significant difference.
Ownership:
  • Every engineer at Agenta plays both the role of a project manager and a developer. This encompasses designing features, interacting with customers, overseeing deployment, and managing bug reports.


What We Offer:

  • Opportunity to work on a challenging problem in a highly competitive market.
  • A smart and talented team.
  • Ownership and rapid growth opportunities.
  • Competitive salary and significant equity in the company

Interested? Please contact us on [email protected]

See Your Match Score

Sign up and Renata will show you how this job matches your skills and experience.

Get Started Free
Founding Lead Software Engineer - Backend at Agenta Ai | Renata