Software Engineer – AI Agent Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Italy.

📋 Description

• Develop features, enhance reliability, and contribute to the evolution of the Polyant open-source, self-hosted AI-agent runtime.

• Collaborate across the administration interface, runtime, database, and release pipeline.

• Assume responsibility for specific product areas in partnership with the team.

• Design and implement features from start to finish, including data models, APIs, user interfaces, testing, and documentation.

• Make informed technical choices while considering user value, implementation complexity, reliability, and maintenance expenses.

• Expand agent functionalities such as tool execution, context management, retrieval, and memory.

• Safeguard the multi-tenant platform through authorization, data segregation, input validation, and meticulous review.

• Create regression tests and agent evaluations utilizing traces, latency, and cost metrics.

• Ensure reliable releases via CI/CD, secure database migrations, and deployment protocols.

• Examine production issues and glean insights from failures.

• Intentionally utilize AI coding agents and validate the generated code.

• Suggest product enhancements and communicate experiments, decisions, and discoveries with the team.

• Conduct research and experimentation on agent behavior, retrieval, memory, and evaluation, transforming promising findings into sustainable product functionalities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in delivering and maintaining production software, with clear explanations of decisions and outcomes.

• Proficient in TypeScript and Node.js.

• Hands-on experience with React and the capability to work across both backend and frontend.

• Familiarity with relational databases, API design, authentication, and authorization.

• Strong software design, debugging, and refactoring abilities.

• Experience in automated testing and code review.

• Practical knowledge of LLM APIs and agent workflows, including tool invocation, structured output, context limitations, cost, and latency considerations.

• Evidence-based approach to reliability, testing uncertain behavior, and investigating failures.

• Practical experience with AI coding tools and a critical eye for reviewing generated outputs.

• Proficient in Git, CI/CD, and software deployment.

• Willingness to take ownership of software behavior post-release.

• Strong written communication skills.

• Fluent in professional Italian and competent in working English.

• Must be based in Italy.

• Additional beneficial experience: Next.js, NestJS, Drizzle ORM, PostgreSQL/pgvector, Docker, or AWS CDK.

• Additional useful experience in retrieval systems, embeddings, hybrid search, chunking, or reranking.

• Additional relevant experience with agent evaluation, tracing, context compaction, lifecycle hooks, guardrails, or MCP.

• Additional advantageous experience with multi-tenant or self-hosted products, contributions to open-source, or tools aimed at developers.

🏝️ Benefits

• Join a small team where your contributions significantly impact a visible product and its technical direction.

• Engage in technical collaboration with regular feedback and knowledge sharing.

• Enjoy opportunities for focused experimentation with a clear pathway from hypothesis to measurable results and product decisions.

• Benefit from a remote working environment based in Italy.

• Experience ownership defined by clear priorities and outcomes.