Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Insights)

Posted 20 Days Ago
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Toronto, ON
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Other • Sales • Software
The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Cresta, you will design and maintain backend services and APIs, optimize data storage solutions, and collaborate with teams to improve customer engagement. Your responsibilities will also include troubleshooting performance issues, writing efficient code, and ensuring the security and reliability of backend systems.
Summary Generated by Built In
Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform,Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.

 

We've assembled a world-class team of AI and ML experts, go-to-market leaders, and top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Sequoia, and former AT&T CEO John Donovan. Our valued customers include brands like Intuit, Cox Communications, Hilton, and Carmax and we've been recognized by Forbes and Bain Consulting as one of the top private AI companies in the world.

About the role:

Cresta Insights: As a Senior full-stack engineer, with a backend focus, you will be at the forefront of shaping the future of customer engagement! As we work towards our vision, you'll be instrumental in delivering timely, actionable insights that drive business growth from day one. We're building a state-of-the-art Customer Data Platform, visualizing relevant insights for businesses post-onboarding and guiding customer engagement across all touch-points. Be part of the team that's redefining the way businesses connect with their customers!

Responsibilities:

  • Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs to support applications.
  • Build and optimize data storage solutions using PostgresClickHouse and Elasticsearch to ensure high performance and scalability.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including frontend engineers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers, to deliver end-to-end solutions.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues in distributed systems and databases.
  • Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices for backend development.
  • Participate in code reviews, testing, and continuous integration efforts.
  • Ensure security, scalability, and reliability of backend services.
  • Analyze and improve system architecture, focusing on performance bottlenecks, scaling, and security.

Qualifications We Value:

  • Proven experience as a Backend Engineer with a focus on database design and system architecture.
  • Strong expertise in ClickHouse or similar columnar databases for managing large-scale, real-time analytical queries.
  • Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch for indexing and searching large datasets.
  • Proficient in backend programming languages such as PythonGo.
  • Experience with RESTful API design and development.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience with performance tuning, data modeling, and query optimization.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.

Perks & Benefits:

  • We offer Cresta employees a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family's needs
  • Paid parental leave to support you and your family
  • Monthly Health & Wellness allowance
  • Work from home office stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
  • Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees 
  • PTO: 3 weeks in Canada 

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in the US and Canada. Your recruiter can provide further details.

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored. If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to [email protected].

Top Skills

Go
Python
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
112 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Cresta is for sales and customer service teams who need to close the performance gap between their top performers and the rest.

Our real-time expertise AI helps contact center agents unlock their full potential by uncovering expert behaviors from every customer conversation and amplifies them with real-time assistance and coaching.

By nudging best practices around objection responses, expectation setting, troubleshooting, and more: Cresta supercharges agents to focus on what really matters; their customer interactions.

Cresta brings together industry-leading AI experts, proven leadership, and top-tier investors including Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Andy Bechtolsheim, Mark Leslie and Vivi Nevo.

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