JOB-2051
An early-stage startup building real-time AI voice agents and compliance automation for banks and mortgage lenders is looking for a Staff Engineer to own architecture across the product on a small, in-office team.
What you’ll do
- Design and own the core systems behind real-time AI voice and compliance workflows used by large financial institutions
- Drive performance and reliability, targeting sub-second response times through event-driven and parallel architectures
- Run, scale and harden distributed systems on Kubernetes
- Take features from whiteboard to live production in regulated environments, often within days
- Improve an AI system that learns from every customer interaction and human feedback signal
Profile
- 3 to 10 years of software engineering experience (4+ preferred) with end-to-end ownership of production backend services
- A computer science degree from a strong program
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, fault tolerance, database design and performance tuning
- Working familiarity with AI and LLMs; production AI/ML experience is a plus
- Startup or founder experience is a plus; the team works mostly in Python but is language-agnostic
On-site in San Francisco. Visa transfers considered.
