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Backend Software Engineer - Engine Team (Voice Agent)

Deepgram· Engineering
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Remote$150k - $220kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Backend software engineer role focused on leading design and implementation of the Deepgram Voice Agent product, building secure, robust, and scalable speech-processing services, integrations with telephony providers and AI models, and driving end-to-end product delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Improve Deepgram’s core inference services including areas in networking, speech processing, model orchestration, and observability
  • Develop integrations with cutting edge in-house, third-party, and open-source AI models for perception and managing conversational dynamics
  • Debug complex system issues that include networking, scheduling, and highly concurrent workloads
  • Rapidly customize backend services to support our customer needs
  • Partner with Product to design and implement new services, features, and/or products end to end

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in an industry role
  • Programming experience in Rust (or C, C++), with competence in Python
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal
  • A high level of experience and understanding of version control; preferably git
  • Comprehensive experience with UNIX-style systems

Skills

Required:RustPythonUnix/UNIX-like systems
Nice to have:C/C++

Benefits

  • Not specified in the description
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Deepgram

Building foundational AI for speech transcription and understanding.

Deepgram is a foundational AI company on a mission to understand human language. We give any developer access to the most advanced speech AI transcription and understanding with just an API call. Our models deliver the fastest, most accurate transcription alongside contextual features like summarization, sentiment analysis, and topic detection. Beyond that, developers can: 🔊 Process live-streaming or pre-recorded audio 🌎 Transcribe in dozens of languages ⚙️ Train custom models for unique use cases 🔑 Access deep NLU with a unified API 💻 Build in any programming language with our SDKs ✅ Deploy on-prem or on DG’s managed cloud 📈 Get scalable GPU infra for training and inference Deepgram is a proud NVIDIA partner and Y Combinator company, and we recently completed a $72M Series B to define the future of AI Speech Understanding, making us the most-funded speech AI company at its stage.

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