--- title: 'Staff Engineer - Backend at Emergent Labs' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-engineer-backend-emergent-labs-bengaluru-6xh2s173gf15' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-17' --- # Staff Engineer - Backend at Emergent Labs - **Company:** Emergent Labs - **Location:** Bengaluru, India - **Posted:** 2026-06-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/emergentlabsinc/jobs/4285927009 ## Job description Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent. Our systems run in production at global scale and are used to build millions of real applications. Since our public launch, we've crossed $130M in Annualised Revenue and grown to over 10M users across 190+ countries, who have built 12M+ applications on Emergent. We're backed by Creaegis, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Lightspeed, Together, Y Combinator, Google, Claypond and Sentinel Global. We're solving the hard part of AI-driven software creation: correctness, reliability, security, and scale in real production systems. The team is built by repeat founders, Olympiad medalists, IIT & IIM alumni, and leaders from Google, Amazon, and Dropbox. We're hiring builders who want ownership, speed, and impact at global scale. Software engineering is about to change more in the next five years than it has in the last fifty. At Emergent, we're building autonomous coding agents that can generate, test, debug, and deploy production applications directly from plain-language intent. Not copilots. Not code-completion tools. Complete software systems. Since launching publicly, Emergent has grown to: - $100M ARR in under 8 months - 11 Million+ users across 190+ countries - 12 Million+ applications built on the platform - $100M+ raised from Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Google, Lightspeed, Prosus, Together, and Y Combinator We're now tackling the hardest problems in AI-powered software creation: - How do autonomous agents reliably build production systems? - How do we verify correctness when outputs are non-deterministic? - How do we build trust, safety, observability, and fault tolerance into systems that reason? - How do we orchestrate thousands of AI-driven decisions across distributed infrastructure in real time? These aren't solved problems. There are no playbooks. That's why we're hiring. The Opportunity This is not a traditional Staff Engineer role. You won't be optimizing APIs, managing microservices, or incrementally improving existing infrastructure. You will help define the architecture of systems that can eventually replace large portions of the software development lifecycle itself. You'll work on problems at the intersection of: - Distributed systems - Autonomous agents - Reliability engineering - Program synthesis - Large-scale infrastructure - Runtime execution environments - Verification and correctness The systems you build will influence how millions of applications are created. ## What You'll Own Architect Agent Infrastructure Design the systems that allow autonomous agents to plan, reason, execute, recover from failures, and continuously improve. Build for Planetary Scale Develop backend and infrastructure systems supporting millions of applications, billions of agent actions, and globally distributed workloads. Solve Reliability for Non-Deterministic Systems Create new approaches for validation, observability, debugging, evaluation, and fault tolerance where traditional software engineering assumptions no longer apply. Drive Technical Direction Set architectural standards across infrastructure, platform, agent runtime, and distributed execution systems. Create New Engineering Paradigms Many of the challenges you'll face don't have established solutions. You'll be expected to invent them. Raise the Bar Influence engineering culture, mentor senior engineers, and help build one of the highest-talent-density engineering organizations in the industry. ## What We're Looking For We're less interested in specific technologies and more interested in how you've thought about hard systems problems. You likely have: - 9+ years building large-scale distributed systems - Experience owning architecture for critical production infrastructure - Deep expertise in concurrency, distributed computing, reliability, performance, and fault tolerance - A history of driving technical strategy across multiple teams - Strong backend expertise in Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust, or similar languages You may have worked at companies like Google, Uber, Meta, Databricks, Snowflake, Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox, Amazon, Microsoft, or exceptional high-growth startups. Experience with AI systems is helpful but not required. Exceptional systems engineers learn fast. Who Thrives Here - Engineers who prefer first-principles thinking over established playbooks - Builders who want ownership rather than coordination - People who enjoy solving ambiguous, unsolved technical problems - Engineers who optimize for impact, not titles - Individuals who want to help define an entirely new category of software ## Why This Role Exists The software industry spent decades building tools that help engineers write code. We're building systems that write software. If successful, this will be one of the most important platform shifts in computing. You'll help build the foundation. ## Compensation - Top-of-market salary - Significant equity ownership - Direct influence on company and technical direction - Opportunity to work alongside repeat founders, Olympiad medalists, and engineers from Google, Amazon, Dropbox, and leading AI companies The best time to join a category-defining company is before the category is defined. Benefits and Perks: - Daily Meals: Lunch and Dinner provided - Family Insurance: 5 Lakhs worth of coverage for you and your family - Unlimited Paid Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge and come back refreshed - Flexible Working Hours: Work arrangements that fit your life and commitments Let's build the future of software together. ## About Emergent Labs ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Emergent is an AI-powered development platform that transforms plain-language descriptions into production-ready software applications, replacing traditional coding with autonomous coding agents. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: Pleasanton, California, United States - **Founded**: 2024 (estimated; earliest funding round March 2025) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs) - **Founders**: Mukund Jha (CEO) and Madhav Jha (CTO) – twin brothers [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emergent) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI-powered software development / Autonomous coding agents - **Target customers**: B2B (teams, enterprises) and B2C (individual builders, power users); from beginners to experienced developers - **Mission**: Democratize product development by letting anyone turn ideas into monetizable software without writing code ## Products & Services - **[Emergent Platform](https://emergent.sh/)**: AI app builder that converts natural language descriptions into fully functional applications. Handles architecture, coding, testing, and deployment autonomously. Generates production-ready code that users own. Pricing starts at $17/month (individual), $167/month (power users), $250/month (teams), with a free tier and enterprise options. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: $100M ARR achieved in 8 months (fastest-growing startup globally) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs); Total funding $100.125M [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund, Google (AI Futures Fund), Lightspeed India, Prosus Ventures, Together Fund, Y Combinator [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs) - **Growth Signals**: 6M+ users across 190+ countries; 6M+ applications built; headcount grew 1,713% YoY to 212 employees; 37 active job postings [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs) ## Competitive Advantages - **Natural language interface** – no drag-and-drop or coding required; works through conversation - **Full code ownership** – users own all generated code, can download, modify, or host anywhere - **Autonomous end-to-end development** – agents plan, build, test, and debug apps independently - **Production scale** – systems run at global scale, handling millions of real applications ## Strategic Focus - Scaling reliability, security, and correctness of AI-driven software creation - Expanding enterprise capabilities and custom AI agents - Continuing rapid hiring (especially in engineering, AI, and growth roles) to support hypergrowth ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: "Own it" – full product ownership from day one; direct founder mentorship; weekly releases with millions of users [emergent.sh/careers](https://emergent.sh/careers) - **Remote/Hybrid**: Offices in Bangalore, India and San Francisco/Pleasanton, USA; open to remote for some roles (details per job posting) - **Perks**: Competitive salary + equity; unlimited PTO; full insurance coverage; meal coverage; modern tech stack - **Engineering culture**: Elite team of Google, Amazon, IIT/IIM alumni; tackle ambitious projects with the latest tools and technologies; high impact at global scale - **Growth**: Fastest-growing startup in the world; massive career acceleration opportunity ## Sources 1. [emergent.sh/careers](https://emergent.sh/careers) 2. [emergent.sh](https://emergent.sh/) 3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/emergentlabsinc](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/emergentlabsinc) 4. [linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs) 5. 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