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Spendesk is looking for a Backend Software Engineer (IC3) to join our PDE (Product, Design & Engineering) organization and help shape the technical foundations of our next generation of AI-powered product experiences. This is a hands-on role for an engineer who combines strong backend fundamentals with solid fluency in LLM-enabled systems. You will work on the technical foundations behind conversational and agentic experiences: backend services for context handling, orchestration, tool calling, and reliable interactions with LLMs and applicative systems.
Job Responsibility
Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that power conversational and agentic AI features
Implement the services needed for context management, tool invocation, rich content access, and multi-step orchestration
Build robust patterns for integrating LLMs through AWS Bedrock, including retries, fallbacks, tracing, and cost-aware usage
Ensure these services are designed for production from day one, with strong standards on reliability, maintainability, and security
Partner with the IC5 Staff Engineer to implement the architecture supporting AI-native product experiences
Contribute to reusable service boundaries, contracts, and interfaces that can be adopted across squads
Help define how applicative squads can expose MCP-compatible tools and capabilities to central AI services
Translate high-level architectural direction into concrete technical implementations and scalable engineering patterns
Own complex backend components end-to-end, from design and implementation to deployment and maintenance
Contribute directly to proof-of-concepts and experiments, then harden the successful ones into reliable production services
Review code, challenge design decisions, and raise the quality bar on backend engineering within the squad
Bring pragmatism to delivery, balancing speed of experimentation with long-term platform quality
Instrument services with logs, tracing, and metrics to ensure strong production visibility and fast iteration
Help define and uphold quality standards around latency, failure handling, cost efficiency, and resilience
Contribute to a strong “you build it, you run it” culture, where backend engineers own what they ship in production
Ensure AI-related services are built with secure coding and responsible data handling practices
Collaborate with Product Managers and Designers to turn AI product concepts into concrete backend capabilities
Partner with applicative squads to connect backend services with the tools, context, and business actions needed by AI systems
Help create shared engineering knowledge around LLM integration, async workflows, and reliable AI feature delivery
Requirements
Significant experience on backend software engineering experience in production environments
A strong track record of designing and shipping scalable backend services with clear ownership of reliability and maintainability
Experience contributing to complex technical projects in fast-paced product organizations
Ideally, hands-on exposure to AI-enabled or LLM-backed product features in production
Strong backend engineering skills with TypeScript / Node.js or adjacent technologies
Good fluency in service design, asynchronous architectures, and resilient distributed systems
Experience integrating APIs and external services into robust product backends
Practical experience, or strong interest, in integrating LLMs into production systems, ideally using platforms such as AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, or Anthropic
Familiarity with technologies such as Kafka, SQS, Step Functions, PostgreSQL, and modern observability practices
Highly autonomous and comfortable owning ambiguous technical problems from framing to delivery
Able to work effectively in partnership with a Staff Engineer while independently delivering complex components
Product-minded, customer-focused, and capable of translating business needs into backend systems
Curious about AI-native product design and motivated by building durable foundations, not just short-term demos
Fluent in written and spoken English, our business language
Nice to have
Experience with conversational or agentic systems
Experience integrating LLMs with tool-calling, guardrails, and evaluation loops
Experience with rich content processing, document workflows, or multimodal service design
Experience in SaaS, fintech, or regulated environments
What we offer
Flexible on-site and remote policy
Latest Apple equipment
Access to Moka.care — for emotional and mental health wellbeing
Great office snacks
A positive team to work with daily
Location-specific benefits tailored to each market, including health insurance, wellness allowances, commuter support, meal vouchers, and gym memberships