Software Engineer, Connectors & MCP

WRITER is an enterprise AI platform for agentic work, aimed at marketing and revenue teams.

San Francisco, United States
About WRITER

WRITER provides AI agents, proprietary Palmyra models, enterprise context and governance tooling to create and execute enterprise workflows.

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About the Role

You will design and deliver secure, scalable AI integration platforms connecting enterprise systems. You'll own backend API design, set direction for auth and trust boundaries across integrations, drive reliability through SLOs and observability, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of backend engineering with TypeScript, Deno, Node.js, or Bun
  • Experience designing API-driven platform services and distributed systems
  • Experience building AI integration layers such as MCP clients/servers and connectors
  • Knowledge of authentication and security patterns (OAuth2/OIDC, API keys, secret management)
  • Cloud-native experience on AWS, GCP, or Azure with Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD
  • Experience with observability and reliability engineering
  • Backend fundamentals including PostgreSQL
  • Ability to lead through ambiguity and mentor engineers

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver secure, scalable AI integration platforms
  • Contribute to the AI integration client ecosystem
  • Own backend service design for high-throughput, low-latency APIs
  • Set technical direction for identity, auth, and trust boundaries (OAuth, API key, service-to-service)
  • Partner with product and engineering leaders to shape roadmap and technical strategy
  • Lead reliability through SLOs/SLAs, observability, and incident readiness
  • Raise the engineering bar via architecture reviews, testing strategy, and mentorship

Benefits

  • Generous PTO plus company holidays
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • Fertility and family planning support
  • Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri
  • Flexible spending account and dependent FSA
  • Health savings account with company contribution
  • Wellness stipend
  • Learning and development stipend
  • Company-wide and team off-sites
  • Stock options and 401k
  • Equity