Gigaml
Senior Backend Engineer
New York · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 152 days ago
TypeScriptPythonNext.jsNode.jsDjangoFastAPIPostgreSQLAWSKubernetesData EngineeringAgentic AIDetection Engineering
About the role
- 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.
- A few examples from our current roadmap:
Responsibilities
- 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.
- figuring out the right approach, building it, and iterating based on what you learn.
- 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 own problems end-to-end: figuring out the right approach, building it, and iterating based on what you learn.
Skills
- 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'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
Benefits
- Competitive base + bonus + equity
- Dinner stipend
- $500/month wellness & commuter benefit (gym, fitness classes, mental health)
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Company info
- 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.
- We're looking for backend engineers to build the infrastructure and systems that power our AI agents.
Equal opportunity
- Giga is an equal opportunity employer.
This listing is sourced directly from Gigaml's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.