Lapel
SaaS
BackendEngineer,Agents
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“Backend Engineer, Agents at Lapel. Skills: Backend Engineering, System Design, AI Agents, Production Reliability. Own systems that power long-horizon agents. Build memory, orchestration, observability, evaluations”
What You'll Achieve.
make agents reliable; deliver exceptional service; make AI agents more useful; make AI agents dependable; make AI agents easier to improve
Industry & Context.
translate product needs into reliable agent infrastructure
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3+ years of backend or software engineering experience, track record of building reliable systems in production, comfortable designing APIs, working with databases, building workflows that run reliably over time, understand system design, debugging, observability, production reliability at a practical level, customer-focused, translate product needs into reliable agent infrastructure, working in fast-paced environments, high ownership, autonomy, proactive, detail-oriented, take pride in building high-quality systems
Nice to Have
excited to build the systems that make AI agents more useful, dependable, and easier to improve
What You'll Do.
Own systems that power long-horizon agents
Build internal frameworks for agent reliability
Design systems for agent context retrieval
Build workflows to reduce failure modes
Make agents easier to trust
Set up observability and eval infrastructure
Monitor agent behavior
Scale multi-tenant systems
Keep customer and agent context isolated
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
work with product team
Full Job Description
At Lapel, we believe the most hospitable companies win. We're building the data, infrastructure, and tools that help customer-facing teams understand every customer and act on that insight at scale throughout the entire customer lifecycle. Most internet businesses want to treat customers well, but their tools work against them. We’re building the layer that makes every interaction feel personal again: unifying context, coordinating action, and closing the gap between intent and experience. It’s a technically ambitious challenge spanning data infrastructure, AI, and systems design – with a deeply human outcome: helping software companies serve people better. We call it hospitality at scale. We’re well-funded, backed by top-tier investors, and already working with incredible companies, from fast-growing startups to large enterprises. We’ll share more details when we talk. ABOUT THIS ROLE You’ll own the systems that power long-horizon agents at Lapel: how they remember, retrieve context, reason over customer history, use tools, take actions, and improve over time. This includes the memory, orchestration, observability, evaluations, and internal frameworks that make agents reliable across our products. We believe that AI should be used to help scale the human moments and deliver exceptional service across any customer touchpoint. Your job is to build the infrastructure that makes that possible. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Design systems that help agents remember, summarize, and retrieve context across long-running customer interactions - Build workflows and tools that reduce failure modes and make agents easier to trust in production - Set up the observability and eval infrastructure we use to monitor agent behavior, debug issues, and raise quality over time - Help to scale multi-tenant systems that keep customer and agent context isolated, reliable, and ready for enterprise use OUR STACK Lapel is built end-to-end in TypeScript in a single monorepo. - React, Vite, and Tailwind on
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