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You’ll lead complex work, make sound architectural decisions, and help other engineers do their best work.\nWhat you’ll do here\nSet technical direction across Coder’s agent harness, integrations, and workflows.\n\nDesign and build production systems in Go, with work across React and TypeScript where needed.\n\nEvolve agent execution, tool use, context management, streaming, and long-running workflows.\n\nExtend our provider-agnostic architecture as models and capabilities change.\n\nLead complex projects from early ambiguity through production.\n\nRaise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, and technical mentorship.\n\nPartner with Product and Design on clear, useful agent experiences.\n\nImprove the reliability, performance, and operability of agentic systems.\n\nWhat we’re looking for\nDeep experience building and operating production software systems.\n\nStrong hands-on experience with Go.\n\nExperience with React and TypeScript.\n\nHands-on experience building systems around LLMs and agentic workflows.\n\nExperience with model APIs, tool calling, context management, or agent loops.\n\nStrong distributed systems knowledge.\n\nWorking knowledge of AWS.\n\nA track record of setting technical direction without formal authority.\n\nStrong architectural judgment and comfort working through ambiguity.\n\nSomeone who makes the engineers around them better.\n\nOur tech stack\nBackend: Go, Postgres\n\nFrontend: TypeScript, React\n\nInfrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes\n\nObservability: Prometheus, Grafana\n\nCI/CD: GitHub Actions\n\nBonus tacos if you have\n(Tacos? 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With Coder, enterprises can confidently evolve from human-only development to AI-assisted and autonomous workflows, without sacrificing security, compliance, or performance. Learn more at coder.com.\nInterview process\nWe believe that the interview process should be transparent, consistent, and enjoyable. We value your time and hope to complete the interview process in two to four weeks, if schedules allow. Through your interviews, you will meet a mix of individual contributors, managers, and senior leaders.\nAI use during the interview process\nAs an AI company, Coder embraces the use of AI tools, and we want to be transparent about our expectations as you navigate our interview process.\nNot permitted: Using AI assistance during conversational interviews.\nPermitted: Using AI tooling for take-home assessments. Please flag where and to what extent it was used in your take-home. 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