Backend Engineer - Concumer & Commerce

Plaud Inc.; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding team ownership

Competitive salary + bonus

Comprehensive benefits

401(k) with company match

Unlimited PTO

New parent leave

Hybrid office (3x/week)

Top-line hardware

Job summary

Plaud Inc. is building the next-generation AI interface for professionals, combining hardware and software to amplify intelligence and productivity. We seek a backend engineer who will own the go-based services powering our ASR platform and developer APIs.

You will deploy across 4 global regions, design high-concurrency systems, and collaborate with product and algorithm teams. This hybrid role requires in-office presence at least 3 days a week in San Francisco Bay Area.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend engineering experience with Go and production services.
• Hands-on AI/ML-serving backend experience with inference API design.
• Experience with multi-region, low-latency architectures and autoscaling.
• Experience designing public APIs or SDKs with auth, rate limiting, versioning.
• Professional English proficiency for documentation and customer engagement.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship batch transcription and streaming ASR API services.
• Deploy and operate STT services across four global regions and manage on-call.
• Architect high-concurrency MaaS workloads using WebSocket/gRPC and queues.
• Engage with B2B customers as the primary technical contact for API capabilities.
• Collaborate with algorithm and product teams to accelerate development and observability.

Skills

Go (Golang)

AI/ML-serving backend

High-concurrency systems

Public APIs / SDKs design

English proficiency

Tools

WebSocket

gRPC

Queue-based processing

Job description

About Plaud Inc.

Plaud is building the real-world AI interface for professionals to amplify intelligence, elevate productivity and performance, loved by over 2,500,000 users worldwide since 2023. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud captures, structures, and compounds the intelligence generated in conversations — so humans can think better, decide faster, and execute with clarity.

Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company pushing the boundary of human–AI intelligence through a hardware–software combination. With full ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2, GDPR, EN18031, and HIPAA compliances, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection.

To learn more about Plaud, please visit https://www.Plaud.ai and follow along on Instagram, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube

Why You Should Join Us

Plaud is building the next generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize intelligence from what people say, hear, see, and think.

• Plaud is a bootstrapped, skyrocketing, profitable company with a $300M revenue run rate achieved in just three years.
• Define the next-gen paradigm for human-AI interaction.
• Gain exposure to cutting-edge AI for Pro tools and play a direct role in our global expansion.
• Work with passionate teammates who value innovation, collaboration, and customer success.
• Grow your career in a culture that champions continuous learning and fast career development.
• Market-competitive compensation, global exposure, and a vibrant, creativity-fueled work atmosphere.

What You Will Do

• Design, build, and ship the batch transcription and streaming ASR API services on Plaud's developer platform — owning the full stack from inference API design and model service integration through authentication, rate limiting, versioning, and developer documentation.
• Deploy and operate the STT services across all 4 global regions; establish on-call rotation, monitoring, alerting, and SLO governance from launch; lead incident response and post-mortems.
• Architect for high-concurrency, low-latency MaaS-style workloads — streaming/real-time protocols (WebSocket/gRPC), async job pipelines for batch transcription, autoscaling, and cost/latency optimization — benchmarking against SOTA inference API providers (e.g., Deepgram, AssemblyAI, Google STT).
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for B2B customers on API capabilities; scope, commit to, and deliver new feature requests on defined timelines.
• Collaborate directly with the algorithm team on ASR model integration and with product on the developer platform roadmap; use AI tooling to accelerate development, documentation, and observability workflows.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend engineering experience with strong Go (Golang) proficiency; shipped and operated production services in Go.
• Hands-on production experience building and operating AI/ML-serving backend services — inference API design, model service integration, on-call and incident response — not just internal tooling or prototypes.
• Solid architecture experience with high-concurrency, low-latency platform services: multi-region deployment, streaming/real-time protocols (WebSocket and/or gRPC), async/queue-based job pipelines, and autoscaling.
• Experience designing and shipping public-facing APIs or SDKs — authentication, rate limiting, versioning, and developer-facing documentation.
• Professional English proficiency (written and spoken) for developer documentation and direct B2B customer engagement.

What We Offer

• Founding Team: Opportunity to join the founding team of this new initiative, with meaningful ownership and impact on a fast-growing startup.
• Competitive Compensation: $140K-$219K base salary+performance bonus+Equity.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Top-tier healthcare for employees and dependents, including dental and vision, and a generous employer subsidy.
• Retirement Planning: 401(k) plan for full time employees with company matching.
• Paid Time Off: Unlimited PTO, plus 13 paid holidays.
• New Parent Leave: 12 weeks of paid time off to spend time with your new family, regardless of gender.
• Hybrid Office: Minimum of 3x in office per week.
• Gear: New hires are equipped with their choice of new top-of-the-line laptops and workstation setups.
• Perks: Best office equipment. Annual offsites. Free office drinks and snacks.

Plaud is and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.