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Senior/StaffBackendEngineer
“Senior/Staff Backend Engineer at Fora. Skills: Backend development, Applied AI, LLM productionization. Partner with Product Manager and Designer. Define and prioritize Applied AI roadmap”
What You'll Achieve.
Build suite of MCP tuning; Optimize agent harness and orchestration layer; Build evaluations and observability; Ship changes to non-deterministic system
Industry & Context.
Troubleshooting; Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, 5+ years experience backend web development, 3+ years experience with Python, High API and distributed-systems design skills, Fundamentals in relational databases, Fundamentals in ORMs, Authorization to work in the United States
Nice to Have
Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered features, Experience designing evaluation and observability, Daily use of AI coding tools, AWS experience, Kubernetes experience
What You'll Do.
Partner with Product Manager and Designer
Define and prioritize Applied AI roadmap
Turn ambiguous goals into shippable agent capabilities
Design and build MCP tooling
Expose data and service layers
Build and harden agent orchestration
Improve reliability of non-deterministic system
Catch tool-call drift
Collaborate with engineers across company
Define end-to-end solutions
Take features from 0 to 1
Own entire solution from design to delivery
and best practices for Applied
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; AI services; Core Django platform; Portal frontend
Communication Scope
Communication
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
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