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    Senior Software Engineer – Agent Systems

    Kraken
    United Kingdom•Brazil•United Arab Emirates•Ireland•Peru•Sweden•Colombia•Argentina•Romania•Cyprus
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    AIbackendfullstackLLM0to1automationdistributed systems

    Requirements

    • •5+ years of experience building and shipping production software systems
    • •Strong backend engineering fundamentals (APIs, distributed systems, data modeling, reliability)
    • •Experience building fullstack systems, with comfort working across backend and occasional frontend surfaces
    • •Hands-on experience working with AI/ML systems, LLMs, or inference pipelines in production
    • •Ability to prototype rapidly while maintaining a clear path to production-grade architecture
    • •Strong systems thinking — able to reason about orchestration, failure modes, and observability
    • •Comfort operating in ambiguous, 0→1 environments with high ownership

    What You'll Do

    • •Build and ship AI-powered agent systems that automate internal workflows and decision paths
    • •Design and implement inference pipelines that reason over user interactions across internal systems
    • •Prototype quickly to validate agent behaviors, then productionize what proves valuable
    • •Architect backend services that integrate with multiple internal APIs and data sources
    • •Define patterns for safe, observable, and controllable agent execution
    • •Collaborate cross-functionally to identify high-leverage automation opportunities
    • •Improve system speed, reliability, and signal quality as usage scales
    • •Contribute to foundational design decisions for a 0→1 agent platform

    Nice to Have

    • •Experience building or operating agent-based systems or autonomous workflows
    • •Familiarity with prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, or model performance tuning
    • •Experience integrating with internal enterprise systems (CRM, support tools, analytics platforms, etc.)
    • •Background in building developer platforms or internal tooling
    • •Experience designing guardrails, sandboxing, or safety layers for AI systems

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