Skyrocket Ventures · 4 days ago
Sr. Backend Software Engineer - Hypergrowth Conversational AI Startup
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$0/yr - $250K/yr
3+ years expSkyrocket Ventures is a recruiting firm for high growth technology companies, and they are seeking a Sr. Backend Software Engineer for a hypergrowth conversational AI startup. The role involves designing and building scalable backend systems, leading a team, and working on advanced AI technologies.
EmploymentRecruiting
No H1B
Hiring Manager
Matthew Strassberg
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
Experience building fast and scalable public APIs
Realtime communication / WebRTC / Websockets
Task queues
Django / FastAPI
Benefits
Equity which could be very lucrative
Company
Skyrocket Ventures
Skyrocket Ventures is a recruiting firm for high growth technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase