Software Engineer – Agents

tensech

Software Engineer responsible for developing core agentic infrastructure and financial workflows at Tensec. Collaborate with teams to automate operations and enhance product features.

Posted 5/23/2026full-timePalo Alto • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $182,000 - $230,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsJavaScriptNode.jsPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and build the core agentic infrastructure at Tensec: orchestration, tool execution, context and session management, policy controls, and observability
Build, ship, and operate agents that automate real financial workflows across operations, compliance, and treasury, from transaction document review to Know Your Business and sanctions screening
Ship product features end to end, from backend services and APIs to experiences built on top of agentic capabilities, serving both internal and external customers
Drive build versus buy decisions on third-party components, integrate where it accelerates us, own what matters for reliability and trust
Build evaluation and monitoring systems to ensure agents are accurate, reliable, and safe in a regulated financial environment
Implement routing logic to optimize large language model usage across providers
Contribute to engineering standards, code review, and the technical growth of the team

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of backend software engineering with a track record of shipping production systems end to end
Hands-on experience building and shipping agentic systems or large language model-powered workflows in production
Strong product sense: you understand business needs, think from the end user's perspective, and care about whether what you ship actually creates value
Strong fundamentals across APIs, distributed systems, databases, and cloud-native architecture
Comfortable moving between infrastructure thinking and hands-on product iteration, you don't stay in one lane
Comfortable owning ambiguous problems, you can scope, build, ship, and iterate without a lot of hand-holding
Experience in an early-stage startup or demonstrated ability to work at that pace
Node.js or Python backend experience; comfort with AWS and modern CI/CD tooling
Experience or genuine interest in regulated industries where correctness and compliance are non-negotiable.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity
Medical, dental and vision
15 days paid time off
Learning and development budget

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend software engineeringAPIsdistributed systemsdatabasescloud-native architectureNode.jsPythonlarge language modelsagentic systemsCI/CD

Soft Skills

product senseuser perspectiveproblem ownershipadaptabilityteam collaborationtechnical growthcommunicationcritical thinkinginitiativeself-direction