Senior Backend Engineer

Akkio is the AI infrastructure that automates campaign workflows for the world's largest media agencies and data providers. Our platform runs on-premises within our partners' cloud environments, sits directly on top of their data, and enables teams to productionize agentic AI workflows at enterprise scale with full security and governance control.

Our approach already powers some of the biggest names in media. Havas Media Network scales agentic AI globally on Akkio. Horizon Media strengthened its blu. platform with Akkio and won an $800M account. Mediaplus built Plus.AI, its global AI media planning system, on our infrastructure. LG Ad Solutions uses Akkio to unlock real-time intelligence from ACR data.

We're a small, fast-growing team, and every person here shapes what media’s biggest players do next. 

We build with AI the way we expect our partners to run on it: aggressively, thoughtfully, and in production. Agentic coding is foundational to how our engineering team works. Our engineers orchestrate coding agents to move from idea to shipped product at a pace that would be impossible by hand, and they hold that output to a high bar for quality, testing, and reliability.

If you've rebuilt your workflow around agents, maintaining context files for your repos, running agents on real production work, publishing MCP servers, or rethinking how code review works when an agent writes the first draft, you'll feel at home. If you're still evaluating whether AI coding tools are ready, this probably isn't the right role.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Akkio, you'll architect and build the server-side infrastructure that powers our AI platform — the systems behind customer-facing AI agents, large-scale data processing, and model deployment for enterprise media workflows.

This role is built for owners. Requirements at a fast-moving AI startup are rarely fully defined and often shift as we learn from customers. We're looking for someone who treats that as the fun part: someone who takes a partially-shaped problem, drives it to a well-shaped solution, and ships a great product without waiting for a full spec. You'll have direct influence on technical direction, and your work will land in production at agencies serving the world's biggest brands.

• Own complex technical projects end-to-end, from ambiguous problem statement through architecture, build, deployment, and iteration in production

• Lead the design of backend systems and APIs that power customer-facing AI agents

• Build and maintain infrastructure for AI/ML model deployment and inference at enterprise scale

• Design highly scalable systems that process and analyze large volumes of media and audience data

• Multiply your output with agentic coding and help raise the bar for how the whole team builds with agents

• Drive improvements in reliability, performance, and cost efficiency as our partner base grows

• Implement security and compliance measures that protect sensitive partner data

• Set engineering standards for code quality and testing in an agent-assisted codebase, and mentor teammates on both

• Work directly with engineers, data scientists, and customer teams and communicate clearly with stakeholders as requirements evolve

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with a track record of solving hard technical problems

• You've deeply integrated AI coding into your daily workflow; agents are your default way of building, not an occasional assist and you can speak concretely about how you direct them, where they fail, and how you verify their output

• You thrive on ownership: you've repeatedly taken loosely defined or shifting requirements and delivered great products anyway, filling gaps with judgment rather than waiting for direction

• Experience building and debugging large-scale systems and distributed architectures

• Strong experience shipping maintainable, testable, production-grade Python

• Deep understanding of REST APIs, database design, and complex system architecture

• Strong background with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure) and modern DevOps practices

• Understanding of data processing pipelines, data storage solutions, and analytics architectures

• Strong bias to execution coupled with high engineering standards and attention to detail

• Public artifacts of your agentic workflow: CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md context files in your repos, published MCP servers, agent co-authored commit history, or writing about how you build with agents

• Hands-on experience building with large language models: evals, tool use, agent orchestration, or LLM-powered product features

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Understanding of security best practices for handling sensitive data

• Previous early-stage startup experience

• Familiarity with frontend technologies and full-stack development

Build at the frontier. You'll work on a team that's genuinely all-in on agentic development, with the tools, budget, and encouragement to push what's possible with AI coding. What most companies call an experiment, we call Tuesday. You'll get better at this craft faster here than almost anywhere.

Ride real acceleration. Akkio is a well-funded startup in a rapidly accelerating phase with major enterprise partners in production, expanding global deployments, and a market that's moving toward us. Joining now means real ownership of outcomes and real upside: substantial equity, outsized scope, and a direct line from your work to company results.

Work with an exceptional team. Our team is small and accomplished, composed of people who've built and scaled products at top companies and chose to do the ambitious thing here. Our culture is built around shared wins: high trust, low ego, and the expectation that everyone operates like an owner.

• Location: Remote-first company with no central office location. This position is fully remote.

• Compensation: Competitive salary range depending on experience, plus substantial equity grants

• Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) plan; generous PTO policy

• Authorization: Must be authorized to work in the US

Akkio is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, and we believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

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