Software engineer, connectors & MCP

About WRITER

WRITER is where the worlds leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. Our vision is to expand human capacity through superintelligence. And were proving its possible through powerful trustworthy AI that unites IT and business teams together to unlock enterprise-wide transformation. With WRITERs end-to-end platform hundreds of companies like Mars Marriott Uber and Vanguard are building and deploying AI agents that are grounded in their companys data and fueled by WRITERs enterprise-grade LLMs. Valued at $1.9B and backed by industry-leading investors including Premji Invest Radical Ventures and ICONIQ Growth WRITER is rapidly cementing its position as the leader in enterprise generative AI.

Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco New York City Seattle Austin Chicago and London our team thinks big and moves fast and were looking for smart hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI.

About the role

Were looking for an exceptional software engineer to join our rapidly evolving this pivotal role youll be at the forefront of expanding human capacity by building the next generation of AI-powered solutions that transform how leading enterprises operate. Youll dive deep into developing a state-of-the-art platform that leverages cutting-edge generative AI technologies from large language models to sophisticated agentic workflows delivering seamless scalable and secure applications that redefine enterprise productivity. This is an unparalleled opportunity to make a tangible impact shaping the future of AI and contributing to a product thats changing how the world works.

This role is hybrid based out of our San Francisco New York City or Seattle hubs. Youll report to our senior director engineering .

What youll do

• Design and deliver secure scalable AI integration platforms that connect enterprise systems and power mission-critical automation.

• Contribute to the design and evolution of our AI integration client ecosystem defining how AI applications securely connect to external tools data sources and enterprise systems.

• Own backend service design for high-throughput low-latency APIs that enable reliable agent workflows and complex cross-system orchestration.

• Set technical direction for identity auth and trust boundaries across integrations (OAuth API key service-to-service) balancing developer velocity with security and compliance.

• Partner with product and cross-functional engineering leaders to shape roadmap define technical strategy and translate ambiguous business goals into durable platform capabilities.

• Lead production excellence through a metrics-first reliability strategy defining and enforcing SLOs/SLAs maturing observability and driving resilience incident readiness and performance optimization at scale.

• Raise the engineering bar through architecture reviews pragmatic design standards rigorous testing strategy and mentorship of senior and mid-level engineers.

What you need

• 5 years of software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems using Typescript Deno or Bun; scope and leveling can flex across Senior to Staff based on architectural impact and leadership.

• Strong experience designing and shipping API-driven platform services and distributed systems including microservices event-driven patterns and secure service-to-service communication.

• Practical expertise building AI integration layers (e.g. MCP clients/servers tool orchestration external API connectors auth mediation) not just prompt or model experimentation.

• Deep hands-on knowledge of authentication and security patterns for third-party integrations (OAuth2/OIDC API keys token lifecycle secret management least-privilege access).

• Proven cloud-native experience on AWS GCP or Azure including containerized workloads (Docker/Kubernetes) CI/CD and production operations.

• Strong experience with observability and reliability engineering including defining/operating service metrics SLOs/SLAs alerting incident response and performance tuning.

• Solid backend fundamentals in modern server frameworks and data systems (e.g. TypeScript/Node or Python ecosystems PostgreSQL) with ability to choose the right tool for the system; experience with Python is a plus but not required.

• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity: partner cross-functionally mentor engineers drive technical decisions and own delivery from design through production.

• You embody our core values of Connect Challenge and Own. You build strong partnerships across teams challenge conventional thinking to drive innovation and take ownership of your work with a focus on delivering meaningful impact and excellence.

Benefits & perks (US Full-time employees)

• Generous PTO plus company holidays

• Medical dental and vision coverage for you and your family

• Paid parental leave for all parents (16 weeks)

• Fertility and family planning support

• Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri

• Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options

• Health savings account for eligible plans with company contribution

• Annual work-life stipends for:

  • Wellness stipend for gym massage/chiropractor personal training etc.

  • Learning and development stipend

• Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites

• Competitive compensation company stock options and 401k

WRITER is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to diversity. We dont make hiring or employment decisions based on race color religion creed gender national origin age disability veteran status marital status pregnancy sex gender expression or identity sexual orientation citizenship or any other basis protected by applicable local state or federal law. Under the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Required Experience:

IC