Skyrocket Ventures
Sr. Backend Software Engineer - Hypergrowth Conversational AI Startup
Skyrocket Ventures, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
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
$2 million/year run rate , with revenues growing
50% month over month . The company is comprised of 8 people and 4 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, building, and maintaining 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.
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.
Benefits
Medical insurance
Vision insurance
Paid maternity leave
Paid paternity leave
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San Francisco, CA (you can work from home 2x/week)
The company has raised
$6 million
in seed funding and has already reached a
$2 million/year run rate , with revenues growing
50% month over month . The company is comprised of 8 people and 4 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, building, and maintaining 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.
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.
Benefits
Medical insurance
Vision insurance
Paid maternity leave
Paid paternity leave
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