Software Engineer, Platform

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade backend services that power everything from data collection to customer-facing insights.
• Own the architecture and performance of distributed systems that ingest, transform, and serve audio data at scale.
• Define and evolve internal APIs and service boundaries to support a growing set of ML and product features.
• Build resilient, observable, and easy-to-debug systems with strong performance characteristics.
• Collaborate with product, operations, and ML teams to rapidly iterate on new product + research ideas and ship fast.

Requirements

• 3+ years backend development building scalable APIs and services.
• Proficient with RESTful APIs, service interfaces, and database design (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and service-oriented architecture.
• Extensive cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code experience.
• Proficient in profiling, debugging, and optimizing backend systems.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience launching systems from ground up in high-growth environments.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, async processing, or large-scale data pipelines.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.
• Built scalable data pipelines that have facilitated large-scale event-driven workflows across large volumes of audio or video data.
• Scaled up inference and train compute for large scale workloads in a production setting.

Technologies

Next.js, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Node.js, tRPC, PostgreSQL, AWS, Trigger.dev, WebRTC, FFmpeg.

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO.
• Top-notch health, dental, and vision coverage with 100% coverage for most plans.
• FSA & HSA access.
• 401k access.
• Meals 2x daily through DoorDash + snacks and beverages available at the office.
• Unlimited company-sponsored Barry’s classes.