Staff Backend Engineer

The role

A staff engineer will shape the technical direction of backend systems. You will lead complex projects, make architectural decisions, and write code to ship products.

What you will do

• Drive technical initiatives across the company
• Design agent infrastructure evolution and tradeoffs
• Own ambiguous and high-stakes projects
• Identify system gaps and build cases for addressing them
• Set standards for code review, system design, and operational excellence
• Work across team boundaries
• Mentor other engineers through collaboration on real work

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience
• Track record of leading complex projects
• Ability to articulate tradeoffs behind system design opinions
• Ability to turn vague problems into clear technical approaches
• Write excellent code
• Ability to hold others to a high standard without being a bottleneck
• Comfortable with uncertainty
• Experience building systems that scaled

Benefits

• Competitive base + bonus + equity
• Catered lunch daily
• Dinner stipend
• $300/month wellness & commuter benefit (gym, fitness classes, mental health)
• 401(k) plan
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage

About the company

Giga is a voice AI startup that recently raised a $61M Series A. The company works with Fortune 500 customers to deploy real-time AI agents.