AI app builder that turns your ideas into monetizable software. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
We're not building another developer tool. We're building the system that replaces software development itself. As a Staff Engineer on Autonomous Systems, you will define the technical foundation for how AI agents reliably generate, test, and deploy production-grade software at global scale. This role exists for engineers who think in systems, care about correctness as much as speed, and want to solve problems that don't have playbooks.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of experience building large-scale backend or distributed systems
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or Go
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, concurrency and parallelism, and system design under scale and failure
- Proven track record of owning architecture for critical production systems, not just contributing to them
- You think in trade-offs, simplify complex systems without dumbing them down, and have influenced engineering direction across teams
- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure or LLM-based systems is a strong plus
More about this role
Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent. Our systems run in production at global scale and are used to build millions of real applications.
Since our public launch, we've crossed $100M in ARR and grown to over 10M users across 190+ countries , who have built 12M+ applications on Emergent. We're backed by Creaegis, Claypond, Sentinel Global, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Google, Lightspeed, Prosus, Together, and Y Combinator.
We're solving the hard part of AI-driven software creation: correctness, reliability, security, and scale in real production systems. The team is built by repeat founders, Olympiad medalists, IIT & IIM alumni, and leaders from Google, Amazon, and Dropbox.
We're hiring builders who want ownership, speed, and impact at global scale.
We're not building another developer tool. We're building the system that replaces software development itself. As a Staff Engineer on Autonomous Systems, you will define the technical foundation for how AI agents reliably generate, test, and deploy production-grade software at global scale....
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