Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Zendesk AI Agents youll play a key role in shaping and building our backend collaborating closely with our Product Manager AI and Machine Learning Engineers Frontend developers and the broader tech team to deliver groundbreaking features focused on speed and reliability.

The Agentic tribe is revolutionizing the chatbot landscape with Gen3 a cutting-edge AI Agent system thats pushing the boundaries of conversational AI. Gen3 is not your typical chatbot; its a goal-oriented dynamic and truly conversational system capable of reasoning planning and adapting to user needs in real-time. By leveraging a multi-agent architecture and advanced language models Gen3 delivers personalized and engaging user experiences moving beyond scripted interactions to handle complex tasks and off-script inquiries with ease.

As an engineer on our team youll be at the forefront of this exciting technology contributing to a product thats redefining how businesses and users interact. You will have full responsibility to build test and iterate rapidly to bring high-quality AI products to our massive user base at an unparalleled scale.

Join us in revolutionizing the chatbot/agent landscape and be part of a team thats shaping the future of AI interactions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain and develop components and services together with your team

• Architect and implement complex applications using well accepted design patterns leveraging our AI to transform the customer service industry.

• Craft and maintain high traffic services and APIs in a team of experienced software engineers.

• Anticipate future use cases and developments to strategize and design a microservice infrastructure that connects to multiple third party systems.

• Improve our code base and processes and develop new product features.

• Become part of the backend chapter a community where everyone has an impact on the architecture of the system. From gathering feedback on your designs educating others about patterns you are an expert in to owning complex cross-team tech initiatives.

• Stay up to date on industry trends helping drive us to innovate learn and experiment with new tools and technologies to continuously

What you bring to the role

Were looking for a communicative experienced engineer who takes pride in producing disruptive technology products built upon logical simple and effective solutions to complex issues.

• Skills and confidence in writing robust code to build high-performing applications

• Knowledgeable on microservices architecture design patterns and best practices

• Ability to create fast database queries for large amounts of data.

• Positive pro-active team player who is passionate about their craft is keen to take part in product discussions and cares about helping the team deliver.

• You enjoy coaching and enabling others and are a natural motivator and enthusiastic mentor.

• Reliable and transparent engineering regularly unit testing and documenting your work.

• You foster and champion a culture of continuous feedback and utilize it as a tool for growth

• Drive for continuous learning with the ability to get up to speed with new systems and concepts quickly.

• Good communication skills high proficiency in English with the ability to adapt communication style to given audience and situation.

• Experience with NodeJS (ES7) MongoDB Typescript.

Our tech Stack

TypeScript MongoDB Elasticsearch Google Pub/Sub Sentry Redis Kubernetes Terraform Argocd Grafana GitHub

Interview Process:

We are excited to learn more about you so we want to be transparent about what you can expect from our interview process:

1. Initial Call with Talent Team - 15 mins

2. Interview with one member of the Hiring Team - 45 minutes

3. Take-home technical challenge

4. A technical interview with two of our developers to talk more in-depth about your technical experience and answer any questions you might have - 1 hour

5. Final interview with 2 of the following: CTO or Engineering Manager/Director - 45 minutes

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Hybrid: In this role our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection collaboration learning and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.

The intelligent heart of customer experience

Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.

Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working enables us to purposefully come together in person at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world to connect collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.

Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer and were proud of our ongoing efforts to foster global diversity equity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race color religion national origin age sex gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation marital status medical condition ancestry disability military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law please click here.

Zendesk endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application complete any pre-employment testing or otherwise participate in the employee selection process please send an e-mail to with your specific accommodation request.