Software Engineer, Backend
Character.AI10 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services supporting applications and infrastructure.
- Implement secure and efficient APIs for frontend applications and third-party integrations.
- Optimize backend architecture, performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Collaborate with product managers, data analysts, frontend engineers, designers, data scientists, and other engineers.
- Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and performance of backend systems.
- Monitor system health, troubleshoot issues, and implement stability and efficiency improvements.
- Maintain security best practices to protect user data and system integrity.
- Stay current with backend development and distributed-systems trends and technologies.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend development building scalable and reliable applications.
- Strong proficiency in Python, Java, or Go, with Python and Go preferred.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or NoSQL database solutions.
- Experience designing and integrating APIs, including REST and GraphQL.
- Understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong problem-solving skills focused on system performance and reliability.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills.
- Preferred: experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Preferred: knowledge of caching strategies and performance optimization techniques.
- Preferred: experience with large-scale, high-traffic applications.
- Preferred: familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.
- Preferred: exposure to machine learning or data-driven applications.
Tech Stack
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About Character.AI
Character.AI builds a consumer platform for creating and conversing with customizable AI characters on the web and mobile. The company monetizes through a paid c.ai+ subscription and in-app purchases, and reports over 20 million monthly users engaging with user- and creator-built bots. Founded in 2021 by former Google AI leaders and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, it is privately held.