Senior Fullstack Engineer, Solve
Austin, TX - USA
Job Summary
Job Description
About the Role
Were building a real-time voice AI product for live natural conversations. This is a chance to work on a product where engineering quality is felt immediately by users. Every improvement to latency reliability and conversation flow makes the experience faster smoother and more human. Were looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer who can own product features end to end while bringing strong backend engineering fundamentals. This is a full stack role but the center of gravity is backend: real-time systems integrations performance and reliability.
What Youll Work On
Build and improve the backend systems that power real-time voice conversations
Develop integrations for telephony real-time audio and external AI services
Ship product features across our voice platform including user-facing web experiences where needed
Improve platform reliability observability and performance
Work on real-time interaction challenges like interruptions responsiveness turn-taking and conversation flow
Collaborate closely with product and design to build voice experiences that feel polished and intuitive
Why This Role Is Exciting
Real user impact: your work directly shapes how every conversation feels
Interesting technical problems: low-latency systems real-time interaction and AI-powered workflows
Broad ownership: youll contribute across product platform and infrastructure
Strong opportunity: voice AI is still early and youll help define what great products in this space look like
Wed Love to Hear From You If You
Have 3 years of experience building production software
Are a strong backend engineer first with solid fundamentals in APIs async systems integrations and system design
Have experience building and owning product features end to end
Have worked with real-time or event-driven systems such as WebSockets WebRTC streaming or low-latency APIs
Care about product quality and enjoy solving user-facing problems
Are excited about voice AI conversational products or real-time systems
Nice to Have
Experience with React and TypeScript
Experience building frontend product experiences
Experience with Python and async backend architectures
Experience with telephony WebRTC SIP or audio/video systems
Experience with LLMs speech systems or conversational AI
Experience debugging performance or reliability issues in production
Tech Stack
Python FastAPI React TypeScript WebRTC Redis MongoDB and modern LLM / speech
infrastructure.
The US annualized base salary range for this position is $145000.00-$217000.00. This position may also be eligible for bonus benefits or related incentives. While this range reflects the minimum and maximum value for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations the offer for the successful candidate for this position will be based on job related capabilities applicable experience and other factors such as work location. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only (or OTE for commissions based roles) and do not include bonus benefits or related incentives.The intelligent heart of customer experience
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Required Experience:
Senior IC