Marlo is the intelligence layer for the creator economy. We are building an agentic operating system that moves beyond simple organization to live deal execution. By bridging unstructured communication with deep industry context, Marlo acts as an autonomous teammate for the world’s most ambitious talent agencies.
We’ve spent the last few months deploying in-production with elite agencies, proving that the future of media won't be run on email threads and spreadsheets, but on high-reliability AI systems.
RoleWe’re looking for an engineer to build the core systems powering the future of creator work. This is a full-stack role with a backend tilt, where you’ll own systems end-to-end—from durable Gmail ingestion pipelines to LLM-based decision engines.
In this role, you will:
Scale the intelligence layer: Partner with the CTO to evolve our backend architecture to a stateful, proprietary representation of the talent ecosystem
Engineer agentic workflows: Architect resilient, multi-step AI agents that can navigate complex brand negotiations using reasoning, tool-use, and multi-step decision-making
Build self-learning feedback loops: Design infrastructure to capture human-in-the-loop signals, turning every user interaction into data that improves our model performance
Solve tough integration problems: Architect robust, fault-tolerant consumers for the volatile APIs (Google, TikTok, IG) that serve as our primary data streams
3+ years of professional experience, ideally in high-growth or early-stage environments
Deeply comfortable with resilient backend architecture. You’ve used asynchronous workflows (Temporal, BullMQ, Celery) and understand failure modes, retry logic, and observability at scale
Experience engineering AI systems: You understand the trade-offs between long-context windows, RAG, and structured graphs to deliver high-accuracy context at low latency
Strong product intuition. You think in terms of underlying data structures and how they solve user problems
Radical ownership. You see a problem and feel compelled to solve it to help the team move faster
In-person in San Francisco: We believe in high-bandwidth collaboration and building software with soul
Get in touch: [email protected]
Skills Required
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience with resilient backend architecture and asynchronous workflows using systems such as Temporal, BullMQ, or Celery
- Understanding of failure modes, retry logic, and observability at scale
- Experience engineering AI systems, including long-context windows, retrieval-augmented generation, and structured graphs
- Strong product intuition and ability to design underlying data structures around user problems
- High ownership and initiative in solving problems
- Ability to work in person in San Francisco
What We Do
Marlo is a maritime ERP platform built for dry bulk, tanker, and commercial shipping companies. It lets operators manage chartering, voyage planning and P&L, cargo tracking, vessel performance, accounting, multi-currency banking, loans, and compliance—including sanctions screening, covenant monitoring, and emissions tracking—in one connected system. Headquartered in London with offices in Chennai, Singapore, and Dubai, Marlo serves vessel owners and operators across 12+ maritime sectors.
