Senior Backend Software Engineer, Solve Voice
Madison, Wisconsin, United States of AmericaAll locationsMadison, Wisconsin, United States of AmericaAustin, Texas, United States of AmericaSan Francisco, California, United States of America Remote
$145,000–$217,000 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
The US annualized base salary range for this position is $145,000.00-$217,000.00. This position may also be eligible for bonus, benefits, or related incentives. While this range reflects the minimum and maximum value for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations, the offer for the successful candidate for this position will be based on job related capabilities, applicable experience, and other factors such as work location. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only (or OTE for commissions based roles), and do not include bonus, benefits, or related incentives.
What you'll bring
- Solid backend fundamentals with experience designing APIs, async systems, and scalable integrations.
- Hands-on experience with real-time systems (WebRTC, WebSockets) or telephony protocols.
- Product-driven engineering mindset — you ship user-facing features and care about UX quality.
- Ability to debug and optimize latency and reliability issues in production systems.
- Enjoys cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and ML/speech teams.
- 3+ years building production software, with significant backend engineering experience.
- Experience with real-time or event-driven systems (WebRTC, SIP, streaming APIs).
- Proficiency in Python or equivalent backend languages and async architectures.
- Experience with telephony stacks, SIP, media servers, or speech/ASR/TTS integrations.
- Familiarity with LLMs, speech models, or conversational AI production infrastructure.
- Experience on fullstack teams shipping both backend and frontend user experiences.
- Expertise in diagnosing performance and reliability issues under real-time constraints.