Giga

Staff Backend Engineer

Giga
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1 year ago

Base Salary

$290k - $400k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design the architecture and evolution of Giga’s agent infrastructure while balancing speed, reliability, and complexity.
  • Own ambiguous, high-stakes backend projects and drive technical initiatives across the company.
  • Make architectural decisions and identify system gaps before they become operational or business problems.
  • Set standards for code review, system design, engineering quality, and operational excellence through hands-on work.
  • Write production code, own systems, ship solutions, and mentor engineers through collaborative technical work.

Requirements

  • Have 7+ years of backend engineering experience and a track record of leading complex projects.
  • Demonstrate strong judgment about system design and clearly articulate technical tradeoffs.
  • Turn vague problems into clear technical approaches with limited guidance.
  • Write excellent code and maintain high engineering standards without becoming a bottleneck.
  • Have experience building systems that scale and understand failure modes at different orders of magnitude.
  • Be comfortable with uncertainty and motivated by difficult technical problems.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary, bonus, and equity.
  • Catered lunch daily.
  • Dinner stipend.
  • $300/month wellness and commuter benefit covering options such as gym, fitness classes, and mental health.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.

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About Giga

51-200 employees

Giga builds and deploys AI support agents for large B2C enterprises, automating customer service across voice, chat, and email. The company sells enterprise software and managed AI agents to handle support and operations workflows, with named customers including DoorDash. Privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, it targets global enterprises and has raised a Series A to scale its platform.

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