Backend Engineer, Wordware

• You have 4+ years of engineering experience, with a strong track record of shipping production systems
• You’re fluent in TypeScript or Node.js, and have experience designing and maintaining APIs, databases, and infrastructure
• You’ve built systems that scale and know how to handle load, retries, and observability in the real world
• You have a deep understanding of SQL — not just queries, but schema design, migrations, and performance tuning
• You’re comfortable with ambiguity, unblock yourself, and make thoughtful architecture decisions quickly
• You thrive in a fast-paced, high-trust startup environment and enjoy owning complex technical challenges

Desirable

• You’ll design, build, and scale the backend systems that power Wordware — from real-time execution infrastructure to LLM orchestration and API integrations
• We’re still a small team, and the product is early — you won’t just be optimizing endpoints; you’ll help shape the foundation of the platform and how AI is built for the next decade
• Here are a few examples of the kinds of things you might work on:
• Extend our executor: the runtime that turns natural language into live, traceable, long-running agent workflows — with pause/resume, retries, and real-time responsiveness
• Contribute to the Wordware programming language — our internal DSL for expressing logic, control flow, and agent interactions in plain English
• Design infrastructure for running thousands of concurrent AI agents, scaling from zero to high traffic in seconds
• Integrate external APIs like Slack, Notion, and Google Sheets — handling schema validation, error handling, and auth flows
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• Stack: Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, Redis

• We keep our process simple. Exceptional candidates go from first touch to offer within 2 weeks
• Application:
• Submit your resume and answer a few short questions. If it looks like a fit, we’ll invite you to send a 1-minute Loom video: tell us who you are and why you want to join Wordware
• 15-minute intro call:
• Quick check to align on location, motivation, and logistics. If it’s a go, we move fast from here
• 45-minute technical interview:
• You’ll build a small full-stack app. We’re looking for fluency, speed, and product sense
• System design interview:
• A deep dive into how you think and architect systems. We’ll walk through a real Wordware problem together
• Final conversation:
• Quick vibe check, answer your questions, and scope out the work trial
• Work trial:
• Paid trial to work on a real project with us — usually a few days to two weeks (flexible to do what works for you). See how we work and whether this feels like the right fit on both sides