Remote-First Senior Backend Engineer, Real-Time Platform

United States Digital Space LLC

United States

Remote

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Software Engineer to help build and evolve our unified AI platform that powers conversations across channels. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver modular, high-quality components and to align with customer requirements.

The role emphasizes building scalable APIs, handling real-time streaming data, and applying best practices for reliability and performance.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
10+ years of experience in relevant domains.
Proficiency in designing and maintaining clear and robust APIs based on gRPC, REST, WebSocket, etc.
Experience handling real-time streaming data (audio or video) with high throughput and low latency.
Familiarity with high-performance database schema design and query optimization.
Experience with containerized application deployment using Kubernetes.
Hands-on experience with one of the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Responsibilities

Play a substantial role in the company engineering team, focusing on building and continuously improving the company platform to support new product requirements.
Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to develop high-quality, well-designed, reusable, and well-tested system components.
Stay closely aligned with customers and their requirements, analyzing technical trade-offs and owning customer-facing deliverables.
Optimize platform design and implementation for lower latency, higher throughput, better reliability, and cost reduction.
Demonstrate engineering best practices and uphold your team to the same high standards.
Grow into technical ownership of significant parts of the company's product and platform.
Contribute to building a best-in-class product and company.