Backend Engineer

Phonic • San Francisco, CA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Backend Engineer at Phonic, you'll build the critical systems that power real-time voice AI at scale. You'll craft highly reliable, low-latency infrastructure that serves production traffic for hundreds of thousands of mission-critical calls every day. Working directly with product, design, and research teams, you'll ship cutting-edge AI capabilities while maintaining and scaling our infrastructure as we rapidly grow revenue.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, or evidence of exceptional ability through at least one standout accomplishment, owning and delivering a non-trivial software system, a substantial personal project with real users, success in a competitive programming contest or hackathon, or a significant open-source contribution
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript
• A bias toward shipping: you believe done is better than perfect

Nice To Haves

• You enjoy being customer-facing and get energy from shipping to users
• You're broadly excited by LLMs and the future of AI
• You are a former founder

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain highly reliable, low-latency systems serving production traffic for hundreds of thousands of mission-critical calls daily
• Work directly with product, design, and research teams to ship cutting-edge AI capabilities to users
• Improve existing products to ensure they are intuitive, sleek, and make innovative use of our research team's latest breakthroughs
• Scale infrastructure to support new traffic as we rapidly grow revenue

Benefits

• 💸 Top-tier compensation: in order to get the best talent, we provide salary and equity that recognize your skillset
• 🥗 Meals: free breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided in the office
• 🩺 Healthcare: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision
• 🤝 We have regular off-sites and team celebrations
• 👵 401(k) – Let us help you plan for the future. We’ve got you covered.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed