Software Engineer - Backend (Product)

Ovii's Interpretation of the Role

Ambient.ai seeks a backend software engineer to design and ship APIs and services that power its enterprise security platform. You will own a core product area end‑to‑end, collaborating with product, design, and frontend teams to deliver scalable, reliable solutions for Fortune‑500 customers.

Role Snapshot

• Backend API development
• End‑to‑end product ownership
• Performance & reliability tuning
• Cross‑functional collaboration
• Production monitoring & alerting

Must-Have Requirements

• Python
• Flask/Django/FastAPI
• REST/GraphQL/gRPC API design
• SQL/NoSQL/time-series/vector data modeling
• AWS/GCP/Azure
• backend engineering
• user‑facing web or mobile product experience

Nice-to-Have Signals

• Real-time systems (WebSockets, SSE, pub/sub, streaming)
• TypeScript and modern frontend framework (React or Vue)
• Video infrastructure / computer vision / LLM background
• Scaling multi-tenant SaaS
• real‑time systems
• frontend code familiarity
• video/computer‑vision or LLM applications
• scaling multi‑tenant SaaS

Work Setup

• Location: Redwood City, United States
• Work mode: HYBRID
• Remote scope: UNSPECIFIED
• Employment type: Full-Time

Eligibility Gates

• Visa sponsorship: unknown

Not Specified in JD

• Salary range
• Visa sponsorship
• Remote eligibility
• Travel requirement
• Security clearance
• Coding test

What You'll Likely Work On

• Design and ship backend APIs from prototype to enterprise rollout
• Own data modeling, API design, performance, reliability, and operational health for a product area
• Partner with product, design, and frontend engineers to translate ambiguous problems into concrete plans
• Tune performance and reliability under real‑time alert pipeline loads
• Build monitoring, logging, and alerting to pre‑empt customer‑facing issues
• Participate in architecture and code reviews and help define team standards

Good Fit If You Have

• Enjoys turning ambiguous problems into clear technical solutions
• Thrives in a fast‑paced, high‑impact startup environment
• Comfortable debugging hard production issues and shipping fixes