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Software Engineer, Backend

Sola · New York City · On-site

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About Sola

Sola is an agentic process automation platform that makes it easy for companies to automate data entry, scraping, and processing flows using LLMs and computer vision – delivering results much faster and with less effort than traditional RPA tools. Backed by Y Combinator, a16z and Conviction.

About the role

Own systems that automate repetitive work across browser and desktop, handling concurrency, reliability, and observability at scale (millions of executions per month) Collaborate with our CTO and ML research partners to bring state-of-the-art agentic workflows into production

What they're looking for

  • You thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can ship fast and solve problems end-to-end
  • You’ve built and operated distributed systems at scale, with a high standard for reliability, observability, and performance
  • You’re proficient across all layers on the backend, from infra to CI/CD to DB to backend service architecture
  • You’re fluent with the latest AI coding tools and are always looking for ways to move faster
  • You’re open to working 5 days a week out of our office in NYC (we’ll cover relocation!)
More about this role

At Sola, we’re transforming the way work is done. We’re developing AI agents that make powerful automation effortless, enabling any user to record a workflow and instantly scale it up to millions of executions.

Sola today powers enterprise workflows in Fortune 100 companies, with a horizontal platform that works across healthcare, finance, legal, logistics, and more. We’ve raised $21M in funding from a16z, Conviction (Sarah Guo), and Y Combinator, and are looking for passionate engineers to help us continue to scale.

If you’re interested in being on the forefront of agentic automation, we’d love to hear from you!

We‘re solving one of the most interesting problems in AI today: building reliable, deterministic execution on top of non-deterministic AI models .

As a backend engineer, you’ll work directly on our AI orchestration systems to enable reliable, scalable, durable workflow execution across desktop and web. You’ll collaborate with our frontend team to surface that to the user in a way that is easy and intuitive.

This is an opportunity to join a small, tight-knit team at our HQ in NYC. We believe the best work happens in person, especially at the early stage, and you’ll have...

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