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Staff Backend Engineer

Giga · San Francisco · On-site

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About Giga

Giga builds enterprise AI agents for customer support that resolve complex conversations across chat, voice, and email — deployed in weeks, human-like at scale. Backed by Y Combinator and Redpoint.

About the role

We're looking for a staff engineer to help shape the technical direction of our backend systems. You'll lead complex projects, make architectural decisions that affect the whole platform, and raise the bar for engineering quality across the team. This is a role for someone who wants to build, not just advise. You'll write code, own systems, and ship, but you'll also be expected to think beyond your immediate work to identify what the team should be building next and how we should build it.

What they're looking for

  • Have 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with a track record of leading complex projects
  • Have opinions about how systems should be built, and can articulate the tradeoffs behind those opinions
  • Can take a vague problem and turn it into a clear technical approach without much guidance
  • Write excellent code and hold others to a high standard without being a bottleneck
  • Are energized by hard problems and comfortable with uncertainty
  • Want to be hands-on at a company where staff engineers ship code, not just review it
More about this role

Giga has recently raised a $61M Series A and is working with Fortune 500 customers to deploy the next generation of customer experience - real-time AI agents that can understand emotion, resolve issues instantly, and scale across the world's largest enterprises.

Industry leaders like DoorDash trust Giga with their most complex support and operations workflows across voice, chat, and email, in high-stakes regulated environments where accuracy and compliance matter. We're at an exciting inflection point.

While we've found real commercial success, our ambitions are larger: to become the go-to AI platform for all enterprise automation, powered by our voice superintelligence. The work affects millions of people every day, and our team has the autonomy to make true impact - with brilliant founders, a clear path forward, and the kind of momentum that defines generational companies.

If being part of that resonates with you, we'd love to hear from you!

Voice AI startup Giga raises $61M Series A

DoorDash and Giga Partnership

We're looking for a staff engineer to help shape the technical direction of our backend systems. You'll lead complex projects, make architectural decisions that affect...

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