Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Platform Team

ApplyMint; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

Parental leave

Health & Wellness allowance

Work from home stipend

Lunch reimbursement

PTO: 3 weeks in Canada

Job summary

Cresta is hiring a backend engineer to build scalable, real-time, secure backend systems that enable customer integrations and enterprise-grade auth. You will collaborate with frontend, ML, and security teams to expand agent assist services and authentication capabilities across channels.

The role emphasizes durability, low latency, and observability in distributed systems, with opportunities to work on enterprise authentication and complex integrations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience building scalable backend systems in production.
• Strong experience designing and maintaining robust APIs (REST, gRPC).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and real-time communication architectures.
• Experience integrating with third-party enterprise platforms and APIs.
• Experience working with CCaaS platforms or contact center systems is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with AI Agents, Virtual Agents, or LLM-based systems is a plus.
• Experience with containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong understanding of system reliability, observability, and security in enterprise environments.
• Experience in building authentication systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to building the best-in-class company and product.
• Architect systems that manage real-time conversation state, context propagation, and session lifecycle.
• Play a substantial role in the agent assist integration process and authentication engineering team.
• Work with product and engineering teams to build and continuously improve the Cresta platform and new product requirements.
• Stay closely with customers and their requirements, analyze the technical tradeoffs, own the customer facing deliverables.
• Demonstrate engineering best practices in deliverables and daily work; uphold high standards.
• Technical ownership in a substantial part of the Cresta authentication stack.
• Ensure high availability, low latency, and strong observability for real-time systems.
• Implement authentication, authorization, compliance, and enterprise security best practices across integrations.
• Drive improvements in reliability, performance, and scalability in production environments.

Skills

Backend systems

APIs REST/gRPC

Distributed systems

Real-time comms

Third-party integrations

Auth systems

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

GCP

Azure

Security

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Cresta unlocks the true potential of the customer experience, turning every conversation into a competitive advantage. Cresta’s unified AI platform combines conversational AI agents, real-time human agent augmentation, and comprehensive conversation intelligence to drive revenue and efficiency gains across every channel. The world’s leading companies, including United Airlines, Cox Communications, and Marriott, use Cresta to power world-class customer experiences every day.

Born from the Stanford AI Lab, Cresta has raised more than $270 million from the world’s leading investors, including a16z, Greylock, and Sequoia. Cresta’s leadership includes some of the leading minds in AI today. Our CEO, Ping Wu, founded and led Google’s Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platforms before joining Cresta to build the future of AI-driven customer experiences.

Over the next few years, AI is going to redefine how people all over the world interact with businesses every day. Come build that future at Cresta.

About the role:

Cresta’s Core Platform underpins the company’s entire product portfolio. Our long term vision is to build a robust, reliable, secure, and extensible foundation that supports continued innovation, satisfies enterprise customer requirements, and keeps operational costs in check. Two critical components for that are agent assist backend services and scalable authentication systems, tools, processes and frameworks based on industry standards and security best practices.

This role is focused on building various backend systems needed to enable successful customer integrations:

• Enable agent assist integration for chat and email. This involves working with the frontend platform team, ML teams, infra team and other backend services.
• Expand our backend agent assist services to meet customer requirements and feature requests.
• Address any customer issues that block integrations, affect user experience or system performance.
• Work with the auth and security team to meet Cresta’s diverse authentication and security needs for internal workflows and external customer facing integrations.

We are looking for strong versatile backend engineers who want to work at the intersection of distributed systems, real-time communication, enterprise integrations, and IAM systems.

Why This Role Is Unique:

• Enterprise-Grade Integrations: Design robust integrations with major CCaaS platforms and customer systems.
• Specialized Auth Experience: Join the Cresta auth team and help build specialized authentication systems to authenticate users, service accounts, virtual agents, server workloads, cloud based authentication for external integrations, etc.
• Agent Assist Integrations: Work directly with the frontend platform team to build solutions for agent assist integrations for various channels such as chat and email and help rollout these integrations in customer environments.

If you’re a strong backend engineer who wants to apply your expertise to real-world AI systems operating inside complex enterprise ecosystems, and expand your expertise in auth, this role offers that opportunity.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to building the best-in-class company in addition to building the best-in-class product.
• Architect systems that manage real-time conversation state, context propagation, and session lifecycle.
• Play a substantial role in the agent assist integration process (chat and email) and authentication engineering team.
• Work with Cresta product and engineering teams, build and continuously improve the Cresta platform and new product requirements.
• Stay closely with customers and their requirements, analyze the technical tradeoffs, own the customer facing deliverables.
• Demonstrate the engineering best practices in deliverables and daily work. Uphold others to the same high standards.
• Technical ownership in a substantial part of the Cresta authentication stack.
• Ensure high availability, low latency, and strong observability for real-time conversation systems.
• Implement authentication, authorization, compliance, and enterprise security best practices across integrations.
• Drive improvements in reliability, performance, and scalability in production environments handling high interaction volumes

Qualifications We Value:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience building scalable backend systems in production environments.
• Strong experience designing and maintaining robust APIs (REST, gRPC).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and real-time communication architectures.
• Experience integrating with third-party enterprise platforms and APIs.
• Experience working with CCaaS platforms or contact center systems is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with AI Agents, Virtual Agents, or LLM-based systems is a plus.
• Experience with containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong understanding of system reliability, observability, and security in enterprise environments.
• Experience in building authentication systems is a plus.

Perks & Benefits:

• We offer Cresta employees a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs
• Paid parental leave to support you and your family
• Monthly Health & Wellness allowance
• Work from home office stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
• Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees
• PTO: 3 weeks in Canada

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in the US and Canada. Your recruiter can provide further details.

This posting will be used to fill a newly-created role.