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    Staff Software Engineer, Backend

    Cresta
    Canada (Remote)Canada - AB (Remote)Canada - BC (Remote)Canada - ON (Remote)
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    6 days ago
    remotebackendAIdistributed systemsreal-time communicationenterprise integrationscloudKubernetesDocker

    Requirements

    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
    • 5+ years of experience building scalable backend systems in production environments
    • Strong experience designing and maintaining robust APIs (REST, gRPC)
    • Solid understanding of distributed systems and real-time communication architectures
    • Experience integrating with third-party enterprise platforms and APIs
    • Experience with containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker)
    • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
    • Strong understanding of system reliability, observability, and security in enterprise environments

    What You'll Do

    • Design and build scalable backend services that integrate AI Agents with customers’ CCaaS platforms
    • Architect systems that manage real-time conversation state, context propagation, and session lifecycle
    • Implement seamless AI-to-human handoff mechanisms ensuring full context transfer and minimal disruption
    • Develop secure and reliable integrations with CCaaS APIs (voice, chat, messaging, routing, agent desktop)
    • Collaborate with ML engineers and AI researchers to operationalize AI Agent capabilities in live environments
    • Ensure high availability, low latency, and strong observability for real-time conversation systems
    • Implement authentication, authorization, compliance, and enterprise security best practices
    • Drive improvements in reliability, performance, and scalability in production environments handling high interaction volumes

    Nice to Have

    • Experience working with CCaaS platforms or contact center systems
    • Familiarity with AI Agents, Virtual Agents, or LLM-based systems

    Benefits

    • Medical, dental, and vision plans
    • Paid parental leave
    • Monthly Health & Wellness allowance
    • Work from home office stipend
    • Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees
    • 3 weeks PTO in Canada

    About Cresta

    Cresta uses artificial intelligence to assist sales and service agents in the quality of customer service.

    Palo Alto, CA, US
    250 - 500
    AI & Machine Learning