Key skills
TypeScriptAILLMLangChainReactNext.jsNode.jsGraphQLSocket.ioAWSDynamoDBCommunication
About this role
Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text and text-to-speech. The Senior Software Engineer will build and maintain backend services and work across the frontend, contributing to the development of the innovative voice OS, Deepgram Saga, which enhances productivity through natural language control.
Responsibilities:
- Build, ship, and maintain backend services using Node.js, Socket.IO, AWS Amplify, and DynamoDB
- Work across the frontend with TypeScript, React, Next.js
- Design and integrate APIs using both REST and GraphQL, supporting flexible, scalable data access across services
- Develop deep expertise in a few areas while remaining comfortable diving into new parts of the codebase
- Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions, fostering a culture of clarity, curiosity, and shared ownership
- Translate high-level product requirements into parallelizable, incrementally releasable tasks
- Balance short-term deliverables with long-term investments in efficiency, scalability, and performance
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience on a full-stack engineering team, building and maintaining production-grade services
- Professional experience with TypeScript, including API development, backend service design, and system integration
- Experience building user interfaces through reusable, composable components—favoring clarity, encapsulation, and predictable state management
- Proven ability to optimize database performance through thoughtful schema design, query tuning, and indexing strategies
- Strong communication skills and the ability to navigate technical tradeoffs in a collaborative, cross-functional environment
- Experience with AWS Amplify
- Familiarity with Electron and building cross-platform desktop (or mobile) applications
- Experience integrating with LangChain, or other LLM orchestration frameworks
- Comfort working in startup environments, where ambiguity, speed, and scrappy problem-solving are the norm
- A self-starting mindset with the ability to scope, prioritize, and execute independently
- Strong product intuition and curiosity about how users interact with emerging interfaces
- Prior experience with voice technology and AI-driven applications