Staff Engineer - Backend

Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent. Our systems run in production at global scale and are used to build millions of real applications.

Since our public launch, we've crossed $130M in Annualised Revenue and grown to over 10M users across 190+ countries, who have built 12M+ applications on Emergent. We're backed by Creaegis, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Lightspeed, Together, Y Combinator, Google, Claypond and Sentinel Global.

We're solving the hard part of AI-driven software creation: correctness, reliability, security, and scale in real production systems. The team is built by repeat founders, Olympiad medalists, IIT & IIM alumni, and leaders from Google, Amazon, and Dropbox.

We're hiring builders who want ownership, speed, and impact at global scale.

What you'll own - A team's area that spans multiple systems: the platform that runs every agent job - orchestration to sandbox - or the serving layer across routing, quotas, cost, and reliability. Its roadmap, quality, on-call health, and RCA follow-through are yours. You trade off what your team needs this quarter against what the platform needs next year. The bar: launches with measurable business impact while incident rate trends down as scope grows - and the area keeps running when you're out, because you've grown the people who can carry it.

How you'll work - You build the tooling, evals, and workflows that multiply the whole team - the kind other engineers use daily without being told to. Your team's CI/CD and test frameworks are yours - kept current enough that agent-built changes arrive with auditable verification evidence, so approval is a judgment call, not a leap of faith. A new engineer - and their agent - is productive in your area in the first week.

What we look for

• A design doc and an RCA you can defend end-to-end: alternatives, failure modes, rollout and rollback, and the follow-through that stuck.
• Architecture change you led across multiple systems: quantified the bottleneck, preserved compatibility through migration, and others extended it after you without redesigning its core.
• You grow engineers with calibrated feedback on L4/L5 designs; product is a peer, not a queue.

Benefits and Perks:

• Daily Meals: Lunch and Dinner provided
• Family Insurance: 5 Lakhs worth of coverage for you and your family
• Unlimited Paid Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge and come back refreshed
• Flexible Working Hours: Work arrangements that fit your life and commitments

Let's build the future of software together.