Senior Software Engineer - Saga / Voice OS

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. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain backend services, design and integrate APIs, and contribute to both frontend and backend development efforts.

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