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Software Engineer, Backend (New Grad)

Otter.ai· Engineering
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Mountain View, CA$136k - $164.5kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Backend software engineer role focused on building AI-native backend systems for meeting transcription, summarization, and collaboration. Early-career position requiring strong CS fundamentals, with ownership from design to deployment in production systems.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship production software. Design, implement, test, and deploy features and services that serve real users at scale.
  • Own problems end-to-end. Take work from idea through design, implementation, rollout, and monitoring.
  • Design for real-world constraints. Make deliberate tradeoffs across latency, cost, reliability, and quality.
  • Build clean, scalable systems. Develop backend services, APIs, and async workflows that are maintainable and built to evolve.
  • Improve quality continuously. Use metrics, logging, user feedback, and experimentation to find problems and make systems better.
  • Move quickly with modern tools. Use AI-assisted development and modern tooling to prototype and ship fast while keeping a high engineering bar.

Qualifications

  • Has a bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Is a recent grad or has up to 1 year of experience building software, with a growing sense of how backend decisions impact user experience
  • Writes clean, maintainable code in a modern language (Python, Go, Java, C++, or similar) and has a solid grasp of computer science fundamentals such as data structures, algorithms, and systems basics.
  • Has some exposure to backend or systems concepts such as APIs, databases, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure
  • Thinks about outcomes, not just implementation, and cares whether what they build is reliable and useful
  • Takes ownership of problems end-to-end and collaborates well across product, design, and AI disciplines
  • Is comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and can iterate quickly on both product and technical direction

Skills

Required:ProgrammingCS fundamentalsBackend concepts

Benefits

  • Reasonable accommodations available during hiring process
  • Accessible and inclusive workplace
  • Total rewards package in addition to base salary
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Otter.ai

Turn conversations into transcripts

Otter is the AI Notetaker that builds your knowledge base and powers your workflow with transcription, automated summaries, AI Chat, and more.

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