Merciv Senior Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure

Merciv is building the intelligence layer for enterprise commerce. We connect an organizations entire data landscape internal systems social signals industry reports consumer behavior and surface the insights and automated workflows that used to take analysts weeks.
We raised $14M in seed funding spent two years in stealth building the right thing and were now launching publicly. Our platform already drives 8-figure gross margin improvements for some of the worlds largest retailers.
Were a lean high-ownership team. If you want to see your work matter immediately this is it.

Youll build the core systems powering Mercivs agentic infrastructure the data pipelines APIs and distributed services that enterprise clients depend on daily. This isnt a contribute to a team role. You own features from architecture to production.
Youll work closely with ML/AI engineers product and designers. The problems are hard the surface area is real and the impact is visible.

• Design and scale backend services in Go and Python powering real-time autonomous intelligence for Fortune 500 clients

• Architect data ingestion pipelines that handle millions of points across internal and external sources

• Build APIs that serve our agentic AI platform at enterprise scale

• Collaborate with ML/AI engineers to ship predictive models into production

• Own system reliability fault tolerance observability performance under load

• Shape architectural decisions that define the long-term trajectory of the platform

• Mentor engineers and raise the bar for backend engineering as we grow

• You have 5 years of backend engineering experience building systems at scale

• Youre deeply proficient in Go and/or Python with strong distributed systems fundamentals

• Youve worked with both SQL and NoSQL databases and know how to process data at scale

• Youve run production systems on Kubernetes

• You think in systems you can design for performance scalability and maintainability at once

• You thrive on ambiguity and hard problems not just well-scoped tickets

• Former technical founders are encouraged to apply we care more about what youve built than how long youve been building