Backend Engineer, Agents at Hebbia

About Hebbia

Hebbia is an AI platform for investors and bankers, founded in 2020. The company powers investment decisions for major firms including BlackRock, KKR, and Carlyle, managing over $30 trillion in assets globally.

About the team

The Agents team builds document understanding capabilities and co-piloting experiences using custom multi-agent frameworks and distributed systems infrastructure for scale.

Responsibilities

Own critical system components by converting complex requirements into robust, scaled solutions

Build high-scale document systems enabling constant-time indexing regardless of data volume

Architect performance-tuning solutions minimizing latency and maximizing throughput across millions of documents

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

5+ years backend software engineering experience at startups or top tech firms

Proficiency in Python, Java, or Go

Extensive AWS cloud platform experience

Working knowledge of Kafka, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, or Redis

Strong problem-solving and communication skills

Project leadership and cross-functional collaboration

Bonus

Experience with agentic systems, LLM products, or AI development tools (Cursor, Claude Code)

Compensation

Salary Range: $160,000 - $300,000 USD

Benefits

Unlimited PTO

Medical, dental, vision insurance and 401K

Daily catered lunch and DoorDash dinner credits

Parental leave (3-4 months)

$15K lifetime fertility benefits

Competitive equity package