Sr. Backend Software Engineer - Hypergrowth Conversational AI Startup

Sr. Backend Software Engineer - Hypergrowth Conversational AI Startup

Location: San Francisco, CA (you can work from home 2x/week)The company has raised $6 million in seed funding and has already reached a $8 million/year run rate in only 16 months.

The company is comprised of 15 people and 8 engineers, and is rapidly hiring.You would be reporting to the CTO/Cofounder, who was previously a machine learning tech lead and manager at Google.The company will pay a salary up to $250k, plus equity which could be very lucrative.

Job Responsibilities

• Primarily programming in Python. The company seeks language agnostic engineers who are able and interested to learn new technologies as needed.- Designing and building highly scalable backend systems.- The team is leaning towards using Go or Python on the backend, but they are open-minded and seek a language agnostic engineer who will help determine the best tech stack for the product and learn new technologies as needed.- If you are interested in leadership, you could be leading 1-2 engineers in the next few months, and 5 engineers in the next year.- Working at the cusp of what’s technically possible in applied AI.- The low latency requirements of real-time speech means that the entire stack has to be lightning fast.- Building AI bots to be rich, interactive, and lifelike.- Designing and building scalable backend infrastructure to support our real-time communication platform.- Designing, building, and maintaining a public API to be used by our partners.- Designing and building integrations with 3rd party software such as CRMs, scheduling software, custom APIs, etc.- Working closely with other backend engineers to improve our real-time communication platform.- Leading and grow a team of more junior engineers.- Working with the devops team to identify the best deployment and scaling strategies.- Working with the front end engineers to support the user-facing web application.- Working with the machine learning engineers to support custom ML features.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years (the more the better) of professional software engineering experience in high caliber engineering organizations.- Strong communication skills.- Expertise in backend software architecture.- Experience building integrations with 3rd party software.- Microservices.- SQL / Databases.Nice to have:- Experience building fast and scalable public APIs.- Realtime communication / WebRTC / Websockets.- Task queues.- Django / FastAPI.About Skyrocket VenturesSkyrocket Ventures is a recruiting firm for hundreds of high growth technology companies that range from industry leaders to top-tier startups. This opportunity is with one of our client companies for a full-time permanent hire. Please only apply if you are authorized to work in the U.S.Please note that even if this job is not a perfect match, we encourage you to apply as long as it is in the ballpark. Companies are often flexible in hiring candidates who do not perfectly fit their written job description, as long as the most important qualifications are there and the candidate is good in general.Most of the jobs we are recruiting for are not posted online, so if you would like to know of all the opportunities we have that match your interests and qualifications, then please get in touch with us.After you apply to this job posting, we’ll consider you for this job as well as any other potential matches with our client companies. If we have any potential matches, we’ll share your resume with those companies and contact you about any interview opportunities we can get you.Thank you, and we wish you a great job search!