Backend Engineer

Posted 11 Days Ago
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2 Locations
In-Office
Entry level
Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise Web • Productivity • Software
The Role
Build and operate reliable backend infrastructure for an AI agent platform. Responsibilities include maintaining integrations, developing a Python tool gateway, managing secure persistent Linux sandboxes, and owning durable multi-tenant data systems. The role requires production distributed-systems experience, strong reliability and security practices, and expertise with OAuth, webhooks, rate limits, APIs, and untrusted code execution.
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The Short Version

You make everything the agent runs on solid: the integrations it reaches through, the gateway that turns them into functions it can call, the sandboxes it runs in, and the data underneath. You've built and operated real backend systems in production and have scars from how they break.

You may never have shipped an LLM feature, and that's fine. If you haven't run systems in production, this isn't the role.

 
The Hard Part

Viktor reaches into 3,200+ integrations for 56,000+ workspaces, 5M+ tool calls a day, on real customer data. Every integration that quietly misbehaves is a task the agent gets wrong.

We're building a harness ready for AGI-level models: an agent that explores what a company runs on and automates it on its own. That bet lives or dies on the backend underneath. The gateway, sandboxes, and data every task runs through have to be fast, solid, and never the reason the agent got it wrong.

 
What You'll Actually Do
  • Own integration quality end to end: catch issues before customers do, fix them, and make sure they can't recur.

  • Build the tool gateway: turn every connected API and MCP into a clean Python SDK the agent composes, with routing, auth, rate limits, and reliability.

  • Run the sandboxes: a persistent Linux environment per workspace, isolated, secured, autoscaled, and cheap per task.

  • Own the data layer: state and persistence across 56,000+ multi-tenant workspaces, durable and fast.

  • Whatever needs building. Small team, large surface.

 
Who You Are
  • You design distributed systems for scale and reliability, and have operated them in production through the breakage.

  • You know sandboxing and OS-level isolation cold: containers, Linux internals, running untrusted code safely.

  • You've wrangled real integration plumbing: OAuth, webhooks, rate limits, and third-party APIs that lie.

  • You think in multi-tenancy, durability, and cost per request, and design for failure by default.

  • Security and blast radius are instincts you bring to every design, especially when the thing executes model-written code.

  • You build with AI by default, because that's how the team moves.

  • You may never have shipped an LLM feature, and that's fine. This is a systems role.

 
Why This Role Is Different
  • No layers. You work directly with both founders, and decisions get made in the room, not in a Linear ticket.

  • The backend is the ceiling. Every integration you make reliable and every sandbox you make cheaper raises what the whole agent can do.

  • You're building the backend of a frontier harness: the layer that decides how much of the model's intelligence turns into real work.

 
Even Better If
  • You've worked on infrastructure, platform, or developer-tools teams where reliability was the product.

  • You've built sandboxing, code-execution, or multi-tenant systems before.

  • You're at home in agentic engineering workflows, spec to production.

  • You've contributed to the open-source infrastructure the world runs on.

  • You've founded something or been an early-stage builder.

 
Tech

Python. No agent framework and no container orchestration layer: Python services, persistent Linux sandboxes per workspace, Modal for infrastructure. You'll live in OAuth and webhooks, the tool gateway, and multi-tenant data. You don't need all of it coming in, but you need to learn fast.

 
How we work

Small team, high trust, low process. Decisions are made by owners, not committees. You will ship your first week. You will talk to users your first day.

We don't do alignment meetings or stakeholder syncs. We build things, see if they work, and iterate.

 
Why Viktor

We're one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. The product works. The market is pulling.

This is a rare window: everyone here owns something real. Not a task. A surface of the company that customers depend on. That doesn't last forever. Right now, it's still true.

 
Compensation

Top-of-the-market salary and the kind of ownership that only exists at this stage.

The best work happens when you're in the room. This role is Munich or Warsaw.

Skills Required

  • Production experience building and operating backend systems
  • Experience designing distributed systems for scale and reliability
  • Strong knowledge of sandboxing and OS-level isolation, including containers, Linux internals, and safely running untrusted code
  • Experience with OAuth, webhooks, rate limits, and third-party APIs
  • Experience designing multi-tenant, durable, cost-efficient systems
  • Security-focused approach to systems that execute model-written code
  • Ability to build with AI-assisted engineering workflows and learn quickly
  • Experience with Python services and backend infrastructure
  • Infrastructure, platform, or developer-tools team experience
  • Previous sandboxing, code-execution, or multi-tenant systems experience
  • Experience with agentic engineering workflows
  • Open-source infrastructure contributions
  • Founder or early-stage builder experience
  • Ability to work in Munich or Warsaw
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The Company
19 Employees

What We Do

Viktor is an AI coworker and teammate integrated into Slack and Microsoft Teams. It connects to thousands of tools and leverages company context to perform real work for businesses across finance, marketing, operations, and engineering. The company is focused on building a product that can replace a large portion of the existing SaaS stack.

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