Exportly.ai
Founding Staff/Senior Back End & Full Stack Engineer
Exportly.ai, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290
Overview
Founding Staff/Senior Back End & Full Stack Engineer
role at
Exportly.ai . This position is 100% in-person in Chicago and involves owning large parts of Frontier’s voice platform that run in the cloud and on hardware. The compensation range is provided as a guide and will be discussed with the recruiter based on skills and experience. Base pay range : $170,000.00/yr - $250,000.00/yr Responsibilities
Design and evolve the core services that power our voice interface and communications backbone (pipecat + Daily or similar), including identity, device/user management, and secure data ingest. Expose clean, stable APIs for client apps and internal services; own the contracts and versioning strategy to ensure backward compatibility. Implement and operate real‑time endpoints (WebSocket, streaming gRPC, WebRTC) and the low‑latency services that move audio and messages reliably. Build near‑real‑time data pipelines for transcripts and events; index them (e.g., search/vector stores) to enable retrieval, personalization, and compliance with data boundaries. Automate infrastructure and delivery using infrastructure‑as‑code, container packaging, and a managed orchestration platform; set up health checks, autoscaling, and CI/CD. Establish observability and security baselines—logs/metrics/traces, alerting, audit trails, authentication/authorization, and secrets management. Integrate external SaaS and enterprise systems via webhooks/SDKs/streaming adapters; normalize and reconcile data into internal schemas. Partner with Android, hardware, machine learning, and web teams to deliver end‑to‑end features (login, permissions, device features, portal workflows) and step into front‑end integration when needed to ship. Stay at the cutting edge of real-time voice AI infrastructure, AI coding tools, and related areas. Qualifications
Required:
5+ years building and operating production back end services in Go, Rust, TypeScript/Node, or Python, including systems shipped behind an API gateway with clear SLOs. Real-time streaming experience with WebRTC or streaming gRPC/WebSocket services; familiarity with backpressure, jitter/packet loss, and reliability tradeoffs; experience with cloud media platforms (e.g., Daily) and/or orchestration frameworks (e.g., pipecat). Experience with API design & contracts, OpenAPI/Protobuf Interfaces, versioning, and backward compatibility. Strong PostgreSQL schema and migrations, query tuning, and working knowledge of caching (Redis) and event/streaming systems (Kafka/NATS/SQS or similar). Observability experience with logs/metrics/traces, alerting, on-call/incident response, rollout/rollback, and performance/cost instrumentation. Security expertise with OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT scopes, least privilege RBAC, secrets management, and audit trails with tenant/row-level data boundaries. Ability to work in the U.S. within 3 months and no travel restrictions for international travel; ability to commute to Frontier’s Chicago office daily (relocation support in offer). Preferred:
Experience with configuring pipelines in pipecat, WebRTC SFU/TURN services, ASR/TTS integration, latency budgeting; RAG/LLM workflows with vector/search stores; Docker/Kubernetes/EKS/GKE and IaC (Terraform/CDK); CI/CD and progressive delivery). Frontier Audio Labs evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. All applications should be done on Wellfound; you should also email your resume and portfolio to pmoeckel@frontieraudio.com. Seniority level
Mid-Senior level Employment type
Full-time Job function
Engineering and Information Technology Industries
Construction, Industrial Automation, and Computer Hardware Referral programs can increase interviewing chances. Chicago, IL location listings are provided for context.
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Founding Staff/Senior Back End & Full Stack Engineer
role at
Exportly.ai . This position is 100% in-person in Chicago and involves owning large parts of Frontier’s voice platform that run in the cloud and on hardware. The compensation range is provided as a guide and will be discussed with the recruiter based on skills and experience. Base pay range : $170,000.00/yr - $250,000.00/yr Responsibilities
Design and evolve the core services that power our voice interface and communications backbone (pipecat + Daily or similar), including identity, device/user management, and secure data ingest. Expose clean, stable APIs for client apps and internal services; own the contracts and versioning strategy to ensure backward compatibility. Implement and operate real‑time endpoints (WebSocket, streaming gRPC, WebRTC) and the low‑latency services that move audio and messages reliably. Build near‑real‑time data pipelines for transcripts and events; index them (e.g., search/vector stores) to enable retrieval, personalization, and compliance with data boundaries. Automate infrastructure and delivery using infrastructure‑as‑code, container packaging, and a managed orchestration platform; set up health checks, autoscaling, and CI/CD. Establish observability and security baselines—logs/metrics/traces, alerting, audit trails, authentication/authorization, and secrets management. Integrate external SaaS and enterprise systems via webhooks/SDKs/streaming adapters; normalize and reconcile data into internal schemas. Partner with Android, hardware, machine learning, and web teams to deliver end‑to‑end features (login, permissions, device features, portal workflows) and step into front‑end integration when needed to ship. Stay at the cutting edge of real-time voice AI infrastructure, AI coding tools, and related areas. Qualifications
Required:
5+ years building and operating production back end services in Go, Rust, TypeScript/Node, or Python, including systems shipped behind an API gateway with clear SLOs. Real-time streaming experience with WebRTC or streaming gRPC/WebSocket services; familiarity with backpressure, jitter/packet loss, and reliability tradeoffs; experience with cloud media platforms (e.g., Daily) and/or orchestration frameworks (e.g., pipecat). Experience with API design & contracts, OpenAPI/Protobuf Interfaces, versioning, and backward compatibility. Strong PostgreSQL schema and migrations, query tuning, and working knowledge of caching (Redis) and event/streaming systems (Kafka/NATS/SQS or similar). Observability experience with logs/metrics/traces, alerting, on-call/incident response, rollout/rollback, and performance/cost instrumentation. Security expertise with OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT scopes, least privilege RBAC, secrets management, and audit trails with tenant/row-level data boundaries. Ability to work in the U.S. within 3 months and no travel restrictions for international travel; ability to commute to Frontier’s Chicago office daily (relocation support in offer). Preferred:
Experience with configuring pipelines in pipecat, WebRTC SFU/TURN services, ASR/TTS integration, latency budgeting; RAG/LLM workflows with vector/search stores; Docker/Kubernetes/EKS/GKE and IaC (Terraform/CDK); CI/CD and progressive delivery). Frontier Audio Labs evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. All applications should be done on Wellfound; you should also email your resume and portfolio to pmoeckel@frontieraudio.com. Seniority level
Mid-Senior level Employment type
Full-time Job function
Engineering and Information Technology Industries
Construction, Industrial Automation, and Computer Hardware Referral programs can increase interviewing chances. Chicago, IL location listings are provided for context.
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