Platform Engineer - Backend

The role

You will build the backend platform that Lyric's product teams and AI agents run on. The work spans core platform services and the agentic layer for building and orchestrating agents.

What you will do

• Own platform capabilities from problem and design to build, release, and iteration
• Build reusable services, APIs and execution patterns for other teams
• Manage data models, concurrency, failure handling, performance and observability
• Work on agentic production agent loops, tools, orchestration, and experiences

Required qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in problem decomposition, data structures, low-level design, and debugging
• Experience with production systems you personally built and owned
• Ability to explain APIs, databases and system behaviour below the framework layer
• Startup experience
• Hands-on ownership style
• Clear communication when the path isn't prescribed

Nice to have

• Developer platforms, workflow orchestration or services with many downstream consumers
• Agent evaluation, tracing, tool integration or cost controls
• Python depth

Before you apply

• Recruiter screen
• Engineering leadership conversation
• Live design and problem-solving round
• Half-day in-office build

About the company

Lyric is an enterprise AI platform built specifically for supply chains. It offers out-of-the-box AI solutions and a platform-first approach for optimizing networks, allocating inventory, and more.