Senior Backend Engineer
$140k/y-$220k/y
David AIa day ago
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Summary
David AI is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their team in San Francisco, CA. The role involves designing clean APIs, building scalable services, and maintaining performance under the weight of terabytes of audio data.
About the Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer at David AI, you will design, build, and maintain production-grade backend services that power everything from data collection to customer-facing insights. You will own the architecture and performance of distributed systems that ingest, transform, and serve audio data at scale, define and evolve internal APIs and service boundaries, and collaborate with product, operations, and ML teams to rapidly iterate on new ideas and ship fast.
About You
Required:
- 3+ years backend development building scalable APIs and services.
- Proficient with RESTful APIs, service interfaces, and database design (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and service-oriented architecture.
- Extensive cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code experience.
- Proficient in profiling, debugging, and optimizing backend systems.
Preferred:
- Experience launching systems from ground up in high-growth environments.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures, async processing, or large-scale data pipelines.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.
- Built scalable data pipelines that have facilitated large-scale event-driven workflows across large volumes of audio or video data.
- Deployed ML models for inference in a production environment.
Benefits
- Rapid career growth at one of the fastest growing Series A companies, within a new and booming industry.
- Competitive salary and equity package.
- Flexible PTO policy.
- Top-notch health, dental, and vision coverage with 100% company reimbursement for most plans.
- Paid lunch and dinner in the office, every day through DoorDash.
- 401k access.
David AI
We're an audio data research company. Visit our website to learn more: https://www.withdavid.ai/
San Francisco, CA