Senior Backend Engineer
Hybrid (San Francisco)$160k - $220kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Senior Backend Engineer role at David AI to design, build, and maintain production-grade backend services handling large-scale audio data, with a focus on scalable APIs, distributed systems, and collaboration across product, operations, and ML teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain production-grade backend services that power data collection to customer-facing insights.
- Own the architecture and performance of distributed systems that ingest, transform, and serve audio data at scale.
- Define and evolve internal APIs and service boundaries to support ML and product features.
- Build resilient, observable, and easy-to-debug systems with strong performance characteristics.
- Collaborate with product, operations, and ML teams to rapidly iterate on new ideas and ship fast.
Qualifications
- 3+ years backend development building scalable APIs and services.
- Proficient with RESTful APIs, service interfaces, and database design (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and service-oriented architecture.
- Extensive cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code experience.
- Proficient in profiling, debugging, and optimizing backend systems.
- Experience launching systems from ground up in high-growth environments (preferred).
Skills
Required:Backend API designRESTful APIsDatabase designDistributed systemsCloud infrastructure
Benefits
- Rapid career growth at one of the fastest growing Series A companies, within a new and booming industry.
- Competitive salary and equity package.
- Flexible PTO policy.
- Top-notch health, dental, and vision coverage with 100% company reimbursement for most plans.
- Paid lunch and dinner in the office, every day through DoorDash.
- 401k access.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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