Weekday (YC W21)

Senior Backend Engineer

Weekday (YC W21)  •  Bengaluru, IN (Onsite)  •  3 days ago
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Job Description

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients

Min Experience: 3+ years
Location: Bengaluru
JobType: full-time

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) who can design and build high-scale, low-latency systems for our AI and voice platform. The ideal candidate will have strong backend engineering fundamentals, experience with distributed systems, and curiosity about Voice AI, WebRTC, and SIP-based integrations

Requirements

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop scalable microservices and backend systems that power real-time AI and voice workflows.
  • Own end-to-end system design — from architecture, APIs, and data models to deployment and monitoring.
  • Optimize systems for performance, concurrency, and fault tolerance at high scale.
  • Implement best practices for observability, testing, and resilience (Datadog, Sentry, etc.).
  • Collaborate with product and AI teams to evolve the platform’s multi-agent orchestration and automation layer

Requirements

Must-Have Skills

  • 3–6 years of backend development experience in Python or Java
  • Strong grasp of system design, concurrency, and distributed systems
  • Experience building scalable, high-availability APIs or streaming systems
  • Familiarity with WebRTC, SIP, RTP, or other real-time communication protocols.
  • Experience with cloud environments (GCP/AWS) and containerized deployments (Kubernetes, Docker)
  • Sound understanding of databases (MongoDB, Redis, Postgres) and message queues (Kafka, Pub/Sub).

Good to Have

  • Exposure to Voice AI, Speech Processing, or AI Agent frameworks
  • Experience integrating LLMs, vector DBs, or real-time AI inference systems
  • Prior work on AI-driven or telephony-driven platforms at scale.

Must-have skills

Java, Python

Good-to-have skills

webRTC, Microservices, Kubernetes

Weekday (YC W21)

About Weekday (YC W21)

AI recruiter that runs outbound sourcing campaigns to find top talent. At Weekday, we have built the most accurate database of talent (250mn+ people in US & India with contact data), we run outbound campaigns to identify top talent for any role you might be hiring for. We generate the highest response rates (30-40%) on our campaigns making sourcing talent as easy as making a job posting. We are backed by Y-Combinator and were also ranked #1 on Product Hunt.

Industry
Consulting & Advisory
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
San Fransisco, CA
Year Founded
2021
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