Senior Backend Engineer (Voice + SMS Platform / AI Agents)
$150,000 - $200,000 + Equity + 401(k) + Medical + PTO + Relocation package + Progression
Miami, Florida - Fully Onsite (Great culture)
Are you a Backend Engineer with AI and distributed systems experience, looking to take ownership of the communication layer behind enterprise AI agents across voice, email, and SMS?
Join one of the fastest-growing AI companies in the market, where you'll work alongside the original architect of the platform before taking ownership of one of the most critical parts of the product as the business scales towards Series C.
Backed by $50M+ in funding and with proven product-market fit, this AI-native company is building enterprise AI Digital Workers that automate customer interactions through voice and messaging at massive scale. As adoption continues to accelerate, they're investing heavily in building a communication platform capable of supporting millions of real-time customer interactions with industry-leading reliability and performance.
In this role, you'll own the backend communication platform powering AI voice and messaging across multiple customers. You'll design and build highly scalable distributed systems focused on reliability, event processing, concurrency, and performance while solving some of the company's most technically challenging engineering problems.
This is an outstanding opportunity for an engineer who enjoys solving complex distributed systems challenges, wants genuine ownership over a business-critical platform, and is looking to progress within a high-performance engineering team.
The Person
- Strong backend engineering experience (language agnostic)
- Experience building LLM applications or AI workflows
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and scalable backend architecture
- Experience designing reliable event-driven or asynchronous systems
- Comfortable solving concurrency, scalability, and production reliability challenges
- Looking for a highly skilled, likeminded, onsite work arrangement!
The Role
- VC-backed AI company with proven product-market fit!
- Own and scale the communication platform powering conversational AI Agents!
- Modern technology stack ( Python, LLM, Postgres, FastAPI, Node, observability)
- Build highly reliable distributed systems for enterprise voice and messaging (SMS)
- Improve platform performance, resilience, and observability at scale
- Work alongside the original platform builder before taking technical ownership
- Fully onsite in Miami
- A modern office with a collaborative, high-performance engineering culture
Rise Technical Recruitment Inc of 1011 Centre Rd, Suite 322, Wilmington, DE 19805 act as an employer-paid private personnel agency.
The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set and will be decided by our client, the employer. Rise are not responsible or liable for any hiring decisions made by the end client.
We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.
