# Software Engineer - Backend at Emergent

- Company: Emergent (YC S24)
- What the company does: AI app builder that turns your ideas into monetizable software. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://emergent.sh
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-18
- Apply by: 2026-11-02
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emergent/jobs/roFdKl6-software-engineer-backend
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/emergent-software-engineer-backend/

## 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

Tags: Engineering