Staff Backend Engineer, AI Systems

United States Remote, United Kingdom Remote · Remote · Senior

£110,416 – £138,020

Listed on Mural’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

Design and build core backend systems for an AI agent platform that enhances visual collaboration, including orchestration, memory management, and observability infrastructure. This role suits a senior backend engineer with distributed systems expertise who can architect scalable services and help define the technical direction for agentic AI systems.

Our summary, not Mural’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

What they ask for

Required

7+ years software engineering experience
Design and operate reliable production systems at scale
Expertise in distributed systems for complex workflows including orchestration and asynchronous processing
Understanding of AI/LLM/agentic systems concepts like tool use and context retrieval
Strong focus on production quality including observability and reliability
Strong communication and technical documentation skills

Nice to have

Full-stack experience or close collaboration on frontend systems
LLM evaluation and experimentation experience
Knowledge of embeddings and retrieval systems
Experience with knowledge graphs and graph-based data modeling