Benefits
Superstar Team Members
The Tomato.ai founders previously sold four startups and led Contact Center AI work at Google. The rest of the team is made up of highly skilled professionals from leading companies and universities.
Competitive Pay
Tomato.ai pays at the top of the pay scale for startups at our stage. The compensation includes a base salary, an annual bonus, and stock options. Employees have clear opportunities for promotion to further increase their pay.
High Learning Environment
Tomato.ai team members are collaborative and always up for helping each other work through challenges. The problems we tackle are super challenging creating lots of opportunities for growth.
Compelling Benefits
Tomato.ai provides compelling benefits. We are remote first. Health insurance options have low deductibles and copays. The cost of meals, coworking desks, and utilities, are covered up to a cap. There are multiple fully paid offsites in fun places each year to help the team bond.
Available Roles
Senior Backend Engineer – GCP
Company Overview
Tomato.ai softens accents on calls. The company raised over $12M and is led by 2 ex-Googlers who worked in the speech space for years. The founders previously sold 4 tech startups. The company is remote-first, based in the US, and hiring for this role in the US and Canada.
Pay range
Highly competitive compensation and benefits. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
Location
Fully remote
Job Description
We seek an experienced software engineer to join our early-stage startup working on backend infrastructure for real-time audio streaming services supporting machine learning models. As an early team member, you will wear multiple hats and have a broad impact beyond this job description. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in systems programming and distributed systems, focusing on high-performance, low-latency architectures, and thrive in a dynamic environment where roles and responsibilities evolve with our rapid growth.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high performance audio streaming APIs, microservices and backend components
- Work closely with other team members to understand requirements to come up with architecture solutions, and ensure low latency, high scalability, high reliability, and high security of the APIs.
- Lead technical discussions and drive the adoption of best practices and standards.
- Improve API standards and services.
Required Qualifications
- Experience in designing, developing public APIs
- Experience with microservice architecture and implementing API standards & frameworks, including gRPC.
- Proficient in Rust & Python
- Minimum 5 years of experience with backend engineering.
- Effective communication skills.
- Ability to work independently in a remote-first environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in developing streaming APIs, especially real time audio streaming APIs.
- Hands-on experience in building infrastructure on GCP that can handle large scale traffic.
- Experience in Apigee.
- Experience in site reliability engineering is helpful.
Competitive Pay