Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Deepgram is the leading platform for Voice AI, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text and text-to-speech. The Software Engineer will design and maintain backend systems for an automated order-taking platform, collaborating with restaurant enterprises to solve high-impact problems in the industry.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend systems for our automated order-taking platform
- Collaborate closely with our team to ensure the seamless integration of our backend with our ML models and client devices
- Monitor and optimize the performance of our backend systems in production environments
- Build and maintain integrations with 3rd party restaurant software systems like POS, loyalty, payment gateways, and customer data platforms
- Implement best practices in system design, code quality, and testing to ensure a reliable, secure, and maintainable system
- Optimize AI pipeline to improve performance in challenging audio environments, robustly handle ambiguous customer requests, and rapidly scale to new menus
- Push the very boundaries of LLMs and voice AI technology to solve one of the technology industry’s historically elusive challenges
- Run experiments to validate the product impact of new functionality
Skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in developing, implementing, and maintaining backend infrastructure in production environments
- Proven track record of building and deploying scalable, high-performance backend systems
- Experience with cloud-based infrastructure and deployment technologies, such as AWS and API design
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to a rapidly evolving startup environment
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with a team
- Willingness to problem solve across our entire product
- Ability to proactively recognize problems and identify solutions to those problems
- Results oriented and care about the impact of your work
- Experience working with audio
- Experience taking a backend system from zero to one
- Experience building and maintaining a system that integrates with many 3rd party APIs, particularly Point of Sale systems
- Experience with Python, Kotlin, or Java
- Experience with containerization tools, such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience working in or alongside AI / ML
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision benefits
- Annual wellness stipend
- Mental health support
- Life, STD, LTD Income Insurance Plans
- Unlimited PTO
- Generous paid parental leave
- Flexible schedule
- 12 Paid US company holidays
- Quarterly personal productivity stipend
- One-time stipend for home office upgrades
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Tax Savings Programs
- Learning / Education stipend
- Participation in talks and conferences
- Employee Resource Groups
- AI enablement workshops / sessions
- For candidates outside of the US, we use an Employer of Record model in many countries, which means benefits are administered locally and governed by country-specific regulations. Because of this, benefits will differ by region — in some cases international employees receive benefits US employees do not, and vice versa. As we scale, we will continue to evaluate where we can create more alignment, but a 1:1 global benefits structure is not always legally or operationally possible.
Company Overview
Deepgram provides a voice artificial intelligence platform for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice applications. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://deepgram.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Deepgram has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2025, 1 in 2024, 1 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.