Backend Engineer [In Person, SF]

[Learn more about this role here!](https://engineering.recall.ai/) [Recall.ai](http://Recall.ai)’s mission is to make it easy for developers to work with conversation data. Conversations have become the world’s largest dataset. Every year there are more words spoken over phone calls & video conferences than on every webpage on the internet. [Recall.ai](http://Recall.ai) is the foundational infrastructure enabling 400+ companies to tap into this dataset. ### Build Foundational Infrastructure for the World’s Largest Dataset You'll be our seventh engineering hire in our downtown SF office.

This role is in person five days a week. You'll have full ownership over major features, play a huge role in creating the culture of our engineering team, and will work closely with the founders. You will develop high performance real-time code, deploy to large scale infrastructure, and process massive volumes of data. To give you a sense of the problem space you’ll be working in: * We process over **1TB per second** of raw video at peak load * We launched 6 **million+ EC2 instances** in the last month ### Responsibilities * Build the core product, from APIs, to real-time video processing pipelines.

Be independent and own major features through development and deployment. * Operate, scale and extend our extensive video processing infrastructure. You'll be responsible for running your code in production. * Work directly with customers to solve their problems. All team members participate in customer support in order to drive empathy for our users and help us build better products. ### Your Qualifications * 4+ years of software development experience * Deep customer empathy, including the desire to speak with customers and make product decisions * Strong ability to learn new technologies and be productive in unfamiliar domains *

Bonus points:

• Previously founded a startup.
• Extra bonus for a dev-tools startup. ### You might be the right fit if… * **You love writing code, but you love having impact more:** We’re a team of engineers at heart, but our #1 goal is building the best possible product.
• That means making pragmatic choices and looking for 80/20 solutions. * **You’re great at “figuring it out”:** [Recall.ai](http://Recall.ai) is a low-structure, high-trust environment.
• There’s minimal process, and we’re growing so fast that circumstances are constantly changing.
• If you can take a high level goal and independently figure out how to achieve it, you’ll fit in great. * **You don’t give up:** The most impactful problems we’ve solved initially seemed impossible.
• We work in a uniquely hard problem domain, and every important problem needs heaps of persistence. * **You want to be a founder:** Joining early at a fast-growing, high-talent-density startup is the best thing you can do if you want to be a founder.
• Anything you want to learn about startups or the business, we’ll teach you. ### You might be the wrong fit if… * **You’re looking for a chill gig:** Startups are very hard, especially if they’re growing fast.
• You’ll have a ton of responsibility, and there’s always an enormous amount of stuff to do.
• Raw hours actually make a big difference in the impact we can make right now. * **You want to ship perfect code:** Velocity is a startup’s only advantage.
• We don’t have the luxury to wait for perfection, and we’re always looking for ways to get more done with less.
• We release as soon as we can, and get customer feedback immediately.