--- title: 'Backend Engineer, Agents at Hebbia AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/backend-engineer-agents-hebbia-ai-new-york-zqsqcfrht3kk' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Backend Engineer, Agents at Hebbia AI - **Company:** Hebbia AI - **Location:** New York, NY - **Compensation:** $160k–$300k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2025-07-09 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hebbia-ai/1c18a253-3c4d-4e5a-952d-cd35ba690ea7/application **Skills:** Python, Java, Go, AWS, Kafka, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, Distributed Systems, Backend Software Engineering, Agentic Systems, LLM Enabled Products, Cursor, Claude Code > Build and scale distributed systems and backend software solutions for Hebbia's agent-driven AI platform. Responsibilities include optimizing performance, implementing universal indexing, and mentoring junior engineers while ensuring technical excellence and reliability. ## Job description ## About Hebbia The AI platform for investors and bankers that generates alpha and drives upside. Founded in 2020 by George Sivulka and backed by Peter Thiel and Andreessen Horowitz, Hebbia powers investment decisions for [BlackRock](https://www.blackrock.com/us/individual/about-us/about-blackrock?cid=ppc:blk_us:corpaffairs_us_br_reputationmediamanagement_na_exact_ol:google:brand_nonprod:ol&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21584717446&gbraid=0AAAAACc6WDFbRb5bgB6zxVFLE_7yIy25I&gclid=CjwKCAiA9aPKBhBhEiwAyz82J2uDlcIPVsy0fhSZMS_rp_OsGerYzYFPFfLo4TlN8K4eCHWzPfvysRoC7oQQAvD_BwE), [KKR](https://www.kkr.com/), [Carlyle](https://www.carlyle.com/), [Centerview](https://www.centerviewpartners.com/), and 40% of the world’s largest asset managers. Our flagship product, Matrix, delivers industry-leading accuracy, speed, and transparency in AI-driven analysis. It is trusted to help manage over $30 trillion in assets globally. We deliver the intelligence that gives finance professionals a definitive edge. Our AI uncovers signals no human could see, surfaces hidden opportunities, and accelerates decisions with unmatched speed and conviction. We do not just streamline workflows. We transform how capital is deployed, how risk is managed, and how value is created across markets. Hebbia is not a tool. Hebbia is the competitive advantage that drives performance, alpha, and market leadership. The Team Hebbia enables leading finance and legal firms with advanced reasoning, copiloting and retrieval capabilities - unlocking meaningful insights for meaningful use cases. The Agents team builds everything from core document understanding capabilities to co-piloting experiences for matrix and deep, multi-source research. We’ve built our own agentic frameworks powered by distributed systems built for scale. We don’t build for one-off success. We build steerable, reliable and explainable agentic systems. And we build these systems for the scale of data our customers bring to the table. Our goal is to unlock the unknowable unknown for customers all over the world. We want to build a product that becomes indisposable to our customers and as delightful as your favorite consumer product. We move fast and build first of their kind systems. What we’ve built: - A [custom multi-agent framework](https://www.hebbia.com/blog/divide-and-conquer-hebbias-multi-agent-redesign) powering everything from deep research capabilities to copiloting interfaces paired with distributed systems infrastructure for long running agentic tasks. - The world’s most powerful and scalable LLM inference engine - a distributed, asynchronous DAG orchestrator capable of incorporating live graph mutations, cooperating in tandem with our[LLM throughput management capabilities.](https://www.hebbia.com/blog/maximizer-hebbias-distributed-system-for-high-scale-llm-request-scheduling) - Elastically scaling data representation and metadata generation → powering the most effective private data retrieval systems. - [Industry leading agents](https://www.hebbia.com/blog/goodbye-rag-how-hebbia-solved-information-retrieval-for-llms)solving problems from buy side company diligence to multi billion dollar M&A. ## The Role A backend engineer at Hebbia blends expertise in systems, application layer software, and data modeling to build highly efficient software solutions. You will be responsible for leveraging the latest software and agentic solutions and integrating product experience with powerful distributed systems. You’ll help protect Hebbia’s technical edge via elegant software design, efficient data communication, and sophisticated integrations. We value engineers who move fast, hold themselves accountable to quality, and are detail-oriented. ## Responsibilities - Own critical system components: Take complex requirements and turn them into robust, scaled solutions that solve real customer needs. - Unlock O(1) universal indexing: Build and iterate on our high-scale document build system that enables constant time latency for indexing any content in the world, regardless of data volume. - Drive performance optimization: Architect and implement performance-tuning solutions to ensure our systems operate efficiently at scale, minimizing latency and maximizing throughput across millions of documents. - Mentor and guide: Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth. ## Who You Are - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field. A strong academic background with coursework in data structures, algorithms, and software development is preferred. - 5+ years software development experience at a venture-backed startup or top technology firm, with a focus on backend software engineering. - Proficiency in building backend and API systems using technologies such as Python, Java, or Go. - Extensive experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) - Working experience with one or more of the following: Kafka, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, and/or Redis - Ability to analyze complex problems, propose innovative solutions, and effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Proven experience in leading software development projects and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Strong interpersonal and communication skills to foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment. - Enthusiasm for continuous learning and professional growth. A passion for exploring new technologies, frameworks, and software development methodologies. - Embraces rapid prototyping with an emphasis on user feedback - Autonomous and excited about taking ownership over major initiatives - Bonuses: - Experience building agentic systems or LLM enabled products. - Frequent user of AI products, especially during the development lifecycle (i.e. Cursor, Claude Code, etc). ## Compensation The salary range for this role is $160,000 to $350,000. This range may be inclusive of several career levels at Hebbia and will be narrowed during the interview process based on the candidate’s experience and qualifications. Adjustments outside of this range may be considered for candidates whose qualifications significantly differ from those outlined in the job description. Life @ Hebbia PTO: Unlimited Insurance: Medical + Dental + Vision + 401K Eats: Catered lunch daily + doordash dinner credit if you ever need to stay late Parental leave policy: 3 months non-birthing parent, 4 months for birthing parent Fertility benefits: $15k lifetime benefit New hire equity grant: competitive equity package with unmatched upside potential #LI-Onsite ## About Hebbia AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Hebbia builds AI agents purpose-built for finance, law, and other high-stakes knowledge work, enabling complex task automation over vast document sets. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $161.1M total funding) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: George Sivulka ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Artificial Intelligence for Finance and Professional Services - **Target Customers**: B2B – investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, Fortune 500 companies, law firms, and consulting firms - **Mission / Purpose**: Deliver “the AI you were promised” – useful, citation-backed AI that handles real finance workflows at institutional scale. ## Products & Services - **Hebbia Matrix**: Enterprise AI agent platform that interprets complex tasks, breaks them into sub-actions, and reasons over large corpora of documents (filings, research, internal docs, data feeds). Includes features like intelligent search, slide generation, spreadsheet creation, and automated workflow execution. Integrates with data providers (FactSet, S&P Capital IQ, PitchBook, etc.) and content stores (SharePoint, Box, Dropbox, AWS S3, email). Delivers citation-backed answers. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (recent Series B at $130M suggests significant growth; some sources hint at $1.5B+ post-money but unconfirmed). - **Key Metrics**: - **Total Funding**: $161.1M (Pre-seed $1.1M led by Floodgate; Series A $30M led by Index Ventures; Series B $130M led by Andreessen Horowitz) - **AUM of Firms Using Hebbia**: $30 trillion - **Average Prompts Per Day**: 200,000 - **Tokens Processed by Investors**: 2 trillion+ - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Index Ventures, Floodgate. Integrates with Snowflake, FactSet, S&P Capital IQ, Guidepoint, Third Bridge, and more. - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew 17.9% year-over-year to 124 employees (as of early 2026). - 41 open positions across engineering, GTM, AI strategy, and design. - Acquired FlashDocs in June 2025. - Used by over 40% of the largest asset managers by AUM and top investment banks. - Expanding internationally (offices in NYC, SF, London; remote roles in APAC and Middle East). ## Competitive Advantages - **First-mover advantage in LLM productionization**: One of the first companies to use LLMs in production (2020) and pioneer retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). - **Proprietary ISD architecture**: Matrix goes beyond chat – it runs complex, multi-step workflows defined by the client’s processes. - **Deep domain focus**: Employees include former bankers, investors, lawyers, and consultants who understand finance workflows intimately. - **Enterprise-grade security**: ISO/IEC 42001:2023, SOC 2 Type II, end-to-end encryption (AES-256, TLS 1.2+), no training on user data, GDPR, CCPA compliant. - **Network effects**: Every insight and workflow a firm encodes becomes institutional knowledge reused across the team, increasing switching costs. ## Strategic Focus - **Deepen finance vertical**: Continue replacing manual analyst workflows with AI agents for origination, screening, diligence, and reporting. - **Expand into law and consulting**: Already serving legal and consulting firms, with dedicated AI Strategist roles for corporate law. - **Scale agent collaboration**: Building “Agent Collaboration Platform” to let multiple agents work together on complex tasks. - **International growth**: Establishing sales presence in UK/Europe, APAC, and Middle East. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: High ownership, hard problems, and cross-domain collaboration. Team includes ex-bankers, ex-McKinsey, ex-Google, ex-Microsoft, ex-Stripe. “The best work happens when the people doing it actually care.” - **Work Arrangement**: Hybrid model with offices in Downtown New York, San Francisco, and London; some fully remote roles available (APAC, Middle East, certain GTM roles). - **Perks**: - Startup equity - Competitive salary - Daily catered lunches - Flexible PTO - Comprehensive medical, dental, vision insurance - Fertility HRA - Parental leave - **Engineering Culture**: - Small, high-impact teams. - Focus on reliability, scalability, and pushing the limits of applied AI. - 34 technical staff (22% of company). - Active open-source? Not mentioned, but strong internal R&D. - **Growth Trajectory**: Rapidly scaling headcount (17% YoY), raising large rounds, and acquiring complementary tech – typical for a high-growth startup with significant market traction. ## Sources 1. [hebbia.com](https://www.hebbia.com/) 2. [hebbia.com/about](https://www.hebbia.com/about) 3. [hebbia.com/careers](https://www.hebbia.com/careers) 4. [LinkedIn/Heebia](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hebbia) 5. 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