Senior Backend Engineer
Senior Backend Engineer building core voice AI and automation platform for 911 centers. Architect scalable systems, optimize realtime AI pipelines and audio latency, build analytics and integrations. Requires 4+ years software engineering experience with strong fundamentals.
About the job
What You’ll Be Doing
- Architect core pieces of our voice AI and automation platform for reliability and scalability to serve 911 centers in their most critical workflows.
- Raise technical standards, contribute to code review and maintenance processes, and help define engineering excellence.
- Solve hard technical problems across domains: building effective guardrails, optimizing audio pipeline latency, effectively evaluating AI performance, optimizing latency in realtime AI pipelines, building robust analytics solutions, and creating flexible solutions to integrate with customer systems.
Who We’re Looking For
- 4+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong engineering fundamentals; know your strengths but excited to learn new skills.
- Thrive on autonomy and constantly seek out new challenges.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision & Life insurance
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Company-wide offsites
- Equipment stipend
- Relocation assistance
- Daily delivered lunches
- Office in Seattle
- Start-up Equity
Skills
Python, Java, Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, SQL, NoSQL, Real-Time Systems, Ai Pipelines, Audio Processing, Analytics
Similar jobs
Backend Engineering jobs
Lithic
United States
Build and operate the foundational API platform powering Lithic’s fintech products, with ownership across reliability, authorization, audit logging, and API evolution. Requires 4+ years of backend experience, strong API design skills, and senior-level ownership in a remote, async environment.
Granica
Mountain View, CA
Build and optimize distributed compute infrastructure for enterprise-scale analytics and AI workloads, improving query performance, reliability, scheduling, and compute costs. Requires senior-level distributed systems experience and production expertise with Spark or comparable query and data-processing engines.
Opto
New York, NYBuild and own backend software for a private-markets investment platform, contributing across the full development lifecycle. The role requires 6+ years of software development experience, strong Python, REST API, SQL, and distributed-systems expertise, plus familiarity with AWS and AI/LLM applications.
Hinge Health
San Francisco, CA
Senior backend engineer designing and operating reliable billing and financial systems, APIs, data models, and distributed workflows. The role requires 5+ years of professional software development experience, strong backend expertise, and collaboration across Product, Finance, Operations, and Data.
Launchdarkly
United States
Designs and operates scalable backend services for an experimentation platform, including data ingestion, metric computation, and results processing. Requires 6+ years of software engineering experience, strong Go or comparable backend-language skills, and experience with distributed, cloud-based, data-intensive systems.