Agent Software Engineer

1 Month ago • 2 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $200,000 PA - $300,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Decagon is seeking an Agent Software Engineer to join their Agent Engineering team. This role involves designing and building AI agents that provide concierge customer experiences across chat, email, and voice. You will work on a leading conversational AI platform, collaborating directly with customers to devise scalable solutions and improve AI agent performance. The engineer will have end-to-end ownership, from initial implementation to continuous iteration, solving complex system challenges and building elegant solutions for enterprise-grade customers. Responsibilities include designing AI agents that outperform human agents, identifying cross-customer trends to guide platform evolution, and experimenting with the latest text and voice models.
Must have:
  • 2+ years of software engineering experience
  • Proficiency in Python and Typescript
  • Comfort with asynchronous programming
  • Ability to debug system failures
Good to have:
  • Experience with multi-modal models
Perks:
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Take what you need vacation policy
  • Daily lunches, dinners, and snacks

Job Details

About Decagon

Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experience. Our AI agents provide intelligent, human-like responses across chat, email, and voice, resolving millions of customer inquiries across every language and at any time.

Since coming out of stealth, Decagon has experienced rapid growth. We partner with industry leaders like Hertz, Eventbrite, Duolingo, Oura, Bilt, Curology, and Samsara to redefine customer experience at scale. We've raised over $200M from Bain Capital Ventures, Accel, a16z, BOND Capital, A*, Elad Gil, and notable angels such as the founders of Box, Airtable, Rippling, Okta, Lattice, and Klaviyo.

We’re an in-office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity. Our values—customers are everything, relentless momentum, winner’s mindset, and stronger together—shape how we work and grow as a team.

About the Team

The Agent Engineering team at Decagon deploys mission-critical AI agents to our customers that impact millions of users and directly drive Decagon’s growth. You will build on our industry-leading AI agent platform, collaborate directly with customers and use your own creativity to devise long-term, scalable solutions.

Our mission is to deliver magical support experiences — AI agents working alongside human agents to help users resolve their issues.

About the Role

On the Agent Engineering team, you’ll have complete ownership and autonomy in building and shipping best-in-class AI agents, from initial implementation through continuous iteration. You’ll work directly with leaders across industries like finance, healthcare and hospitality, solving their users’ needs with reliable and intuitive AI agents.

Engineers here own their work end-to-end and are trusted to make a real impact. This role is for someone who dives deep into complex system challenges and builds elegant solutions that scale to millions of users.

In this role, you will

  • Design and build AI agents that outperform human agents in managing complex customer interactions and driving customer retention

  • Identify cross-customer trends that guide the evolution of Decagon’s agent building platform and research efforts

  • Experiment with and run evaluations on the latest text and voice models, then integrate them at scale with large enterprise-grade customers

Your background looks something like this

  • Have 2+ years of industry experience in software engineering

  • Proficiency with Python, Typescript and asynchronous programming

  • A high degree of comfort digging into system failures within deep technology stacks using any tool necessary

Even better

  • Prior experience working with multi-modal models

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits

  • Take what you need vacation policy

  • Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office to keep you at your best

Compensation

$200K – $300K + Offers Equity

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