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Senior Backend Engineer, Infrastructure

Ellipsis · San Francisco - Hybrid · Remote

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About Ellipsis

Cloud platform for coding agents. Backed by Khosla.

About the role

Expand and maintain our real-time voice pipeline: design, implement, and maintain Python micro-services for conversational AI orchestration—audio

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Ellipsis Health is developing cutting-edge AI/ML products to address healthcare staffing issues and administrative burdens. The platform employs conversational AI and patented vocal biomarker technology to deliver improved healthcare experiences for clients and patients. The team is headquartered in Silicon Valley and is funded and supported by preeminent venture capital groups and healthcare institutions.

Expand and maintain our real-time voice pipeline: design, implement, and

maintain Python micro-services for conversational AI orchestration—audio

capture, streaming transcription, prompt/LLM logic, synthesis, and playback.

Integrate new providers & transports: add plug-ins for emerging ASR, TTS,

LLM, and memory services; wire up WebRTC, SIP, or phone endpoints; build

adapters that allow hot-swapping components without downtime. Build API

endpoints.

Deliver ultra-low latency (

4+ years building production back-ends in modern Python.

Proven experience with real-time streaming systems—WebRTC, WebSockets,

or gRPC streaming—and proficiency with asyncio, FastAPI, or similar async

frameworks.

Deep understanding of concurrency, buffering, audio codecs (Opus, PCM), and

distributed...

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