Senior Backend Engineer - Healthcare AI (Hybrid)

Take a Seat Tech; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Take a Seat Tech in San Francisco (hybrid) is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build the real-time voice and language infrastructure behind its healthcare conversational AI product. The role focuses on Python services, streaming systems, and integration with speech/LMC providers to ensure reliable real-time performance.

The candidate should have four or more years of production backend experience, strong Python skills, and hands-on experience with asynchronous or real-time systems.

Qualifications

• Four or more years of production backend experience.
• Strong Python and hands-on experience with asynchronous or real-time systems.
• Experience with WebSockets, WebRTC, or streaming gRPC.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration.
• Healthcare, telephony or regulated-industry experience is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Build Python services and APIs.
• Integrate speech and language model providers.
• Improve streaming performance and manage conversational state.
• Strengthen observability, and build infrastructure that makes components easy to change without disrupting the service.

Skills

Python

Async real-time

Streaming data

Cloud infrastructure

Container orchestration

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

WebSockets

WebRTC

gRPC

Job description

Take a Seat Tech in San Francisco (hybrid) is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build the real-time voice and language infrastructure behind its healthcare conversational AI product. The role focuses on Python services, streaming systems, and integration with speech/LMC providers to ensure reliable real-time performance.

The candidate should have four or more years of production backend experience, strong Python skills, and hands-on experience with asynchronous or real-time systems.