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It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\nThe Agent Systems team is a 0→1 engineering group building internal AI-powered agents that interact directly with company systems. The mandate is to dramatically increase internal speed of execution through automation, intelligent inference, and workflow orchestration.\nThis team operates at the intersection of AI, backend systems, and applied product engineering. The work is pragmatic and fast-moving - prototypes are expected, but the bar for production reliability remains high. Engineers on this team move fluidly between experimentation and shipping, building systems that reason over user interactions and take meaningful action across internal tools.\nYou’ll work closely with cross-functional partners across product, infrastructure, and internal operations to deploy agent-driven capabilities that compound leverage across the organization.\nThe opportunity\nBuild and ship AI-powered agent systems that automate internal workflows and decision paths\n\nDesign and implement inference pipelines that reason over user interactions across internal systems\n\nPrototype quickly to validate agent behaviors, then productionize what proves valuable\n\nArchitect backend services that integrate with multiple internal APIs and data sources\n\nDefine patterns for safe, observable, and controllable agent execution\n\nCollaborate cross-functionally to identify high-leverage automation opportunities\n\nImprove system speed, reliability, and signal quality as usage scales\n\nContribute to foundational design decisions for a 0→1 agent platform\n\nSkills you should HODL\n5+ years of experience building and shipping production software systems\n\nStrong backend engineering fundamentals (APIs, distributed systems, data modeling, reliability)\n\nExperience building fullstack systems, with comfort working across backend and occasional frontend surfaces\n\nHands-on experience working with AI/ML systems, LLMs, or inference pipelines in production\n\nAbility to prototype rapidly while maintaining a clear path to production-grade architecture\n\nStrong systems thinking - able to reason about orchestration, failure modes, and observability\n\nComfort operating in ambiguous, 0→1 environments with high ownership\n\nNice to haves\nExperience building or operating agent-based systems or autonomous workflows\n\nFamiliarity with prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, or model performance tuning\n\nExperience integrating with internal enterprise systems (CRM, support tools, analytics platforms, etc.)\n\nBackground in building developer platforms or internal tooling\n\nExperience designing guardrails, sandboxing, or safety layers for AI systems\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\nPlease note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.\nWe consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.\nOur commitment\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills for the job. We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgeable about crypto.\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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