Senior Backend Engineer

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New York, NY, USA
In-Office
210K-350K Annually
Senior level
Software
The Role
Build and scale backend infrastructure and systems powering real-time AI agents. Work across data pipelines, analytics, and real-time systems; own end-to-end design, implementation, and iteration. Drive initiatives like ClickHouse analytics migration, hallucination detection, and scaling browser-use agents.
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About Giga

Giga has recently raised a $61M Series A and is working with Fortune 500 customers to deploy the next generation of customer experience - real-time AI agents that can understand emotion, resolve issues instantly, and scale across the world's largest enterprises.

Industry leaders like DoorDash trust Giga with their most complex support and operations workflows across voice, chat, and email, in high-stakes regulated environments where accuracy and compliance matter. We're at an exciting inflection point.

While we've found real commercial success, our ambitions are larger: to become the go-to AI platform for all enterprise automation, powered by our voice superintelligence. The work affects millions of people every day, and our team has the autonomy to make true impact - with brilliant founders, a clear path forward, and the kind of momentum that defines generational companies.

If being part of that resonates with you, we'd love to hear from you!

  • Voice AI startup Giga raises $61M Series A

  • DoorDash and Giga Partnership

The Role

We're looking for backend engineers to build the infrastructure and systems that power our AI agents. You'll work across the stack, from data pipelines and analytics to real-time agent systems, shipping features that directly impact how our customers operate.

This isn't a role where you'll be handed a spec and asked to execute. You'll own problems end-to-end: figuring out the right approach, building it, and iterating based on what you learn.

What You'll Work On

A few examples from our current roadmap:

  • Analytics rewrite: Migrating our analytics service to ClickHouse and rebuilding it to scale through our next 10x of growth

  • Hallucination detection: Improving our detection systems with the goal of driving hallucination rates toward zero

  • Browser use agent: Scaling, stabilizing, and adding features and accuracy to our browser use agent in lieu of formal customer APIs

As a senior engineer, you'll be expected to make sound technical decisions, ship reliably, and help set the bar for code quality and system design. You'll have significant autonomy and influence over what gets built and how.

Tech Stack
  • Backend: Python (Django/FastAPI), TypeScript (Node.js)

  • Infrastructure: AWS, Modal, Kubernetes, Postgres

  • Frontend: TypeScript, Next.js (you'll interact with this, but it's not the focus)

You Might Be a Fit If You
  • Have 4+ years building backend systems, ideally at companies where reliability and scale mattered

  • Are comfortable with ambiguity: you can take a loosely-defined problem and figure out what to build

  • You'll jump into unfamiliar parts of the codebase when that's what the problem requires

  • Write clean code and care about getting the details right, but also know when to ship

  • Want to work on hard problems with a small team where your work has obvious impact

  • Are excited about AI agents and the infrastructure challenges that come with running them in production

Perks & Benefits
  • Catered lunch daily

  • Dinner stipend

  • $150/month wellness benefit (gym, fitness classes, mental health)

  • 401(k) plan

  • Commuter benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Giga is an equal opportunity employer. We're committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Skills Required

  • 4+ years building backend systems, ideally with reliability and scale experience
  • Proficiency in Python and frameworks (Django or FastAPI)
  • Experience with TypeScript and Node.js
  • Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Modal, and Postgres
  • Experience with ClickHouse or building analytics/data pipeline systems
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and defining loosely-specified problems end-to-end
  • Willingness to jump into unfamiliar parts of the codebase
  • Write clean code, ship reliably, and care about system design and details
  • Interest in AI agents and production infrastructure for AI
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
30 Employees
Year Founded: 2023

What We Do

On a mission to save people time. We build enterprise AI voice agents that handle complex customer interactions with unmatched speed and scale.

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