Staff Software Engineer - Application

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, AWS, Azure, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, GoLang, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GPUs, Machine learning techniques, Python Programming, Software Development

Job Description

About us

Character’s mission is to give everyone on earth access to their own deeply personalized superintelligence that helps them live their best lives.

Achieving our mission will require solving ambitious technical challenges, including engineering, research, and design, and we are assembling a world-class team to do so. Our founding team includes AI pioneers from Google Brain and Meta Research whose research has led to major breakthroughs in natural language understanding and dialog applications such as Transformers and Google LaMDA.

Check out our beta to get a glimpse into the future.

About the role

Responsibilities:

As a Staff Software Engineer - Application at Character, you’ll work cross functionally with design, product and ML researchers to identify, design and implement the next generations of our “runtime stack” - one of the fastest growing consumer applications on the market today. You will lead implementation of our backend systems to support new parts of our product while working with the Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure role to support scaling our existing systems.

Requirements:

• B.A.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of industry experience 
• Experience splitting out a monolith application into a service oriented architecture
• Track record working with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to land new features for users
• Experience building and managing infrastructure in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS or Azure)
• Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
• Experience designing production data models for a performant and scalable application
• Strong background in Python 
• Experience writing highly performant service in a modern typed language (e.g. Golang)

Desired Experience:

• Experience with defining profobuf and communicating between services with gRPC is highly desired
• Track record building and scaling backend systems to support a fast growing consumer application
• Experience with production AI/ML systems and services including optimizing GPU/TPU deployments
• Experience working with vector databases (e.g. Pinecone, distributed faiss)

You will be a good fit if you are proactive and have a “get things done” mindset. Given our current pace of growth and load on our systems, most people have had a significant impact during their first week at the company.

Character is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We value diversity and encourage applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply.