Join Cresta as a Senior Software Engineer to enhance their AI-driven platform in a remote-first environment.
Posted by employer 1 year ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
AI in the day-to-day
Cresta’s unified AI platform combines conversational AI agents and real-time human agent augmentation.
Requirements
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer will focus on enhancing the Cresta platform by developing and optimizing system components to meet evolving product needs. Key skills include expertise in API design, real-time data handling, and experience with cloud services and containerization. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with over a decade of experience, particularly those looking to influence the growth of a new tech hub in Romania. Cresta's commitment to building a strong engineering team reflects its ambitious vision for AI-driven customer experiences.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 9 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Cresta's career page.
- Cresta has 94 other open roles including Program Director, Sales Development Manager - West, Sales Development Manager - East.
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Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Cluj) role remote?
- It's hybrid — Cresta expects some on-site time in Cluj, Romania (Hybrid).
- How much experience is required?
- At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Cluj) role.
- Where is the role based?
- Cresta is hiring for this position in Cluj, Romania (Hybrid).
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: APIs, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, REST.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Cresta targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Cluj) role at Cresta.
From the original posting
Cresta unlocks the true potential of the customer experience, turning every conversation into a competitive advantage. Cresta’s unified AI platform combines conversational AI agents, real-time human agent augmentation, and comprehensive conversation intelligence to drive revenue and efficiency gains across every channel. The world’s leading companies, including United Airlines, Cox Communications, and Marriott, use Cresta to power world-class customer experiences every day.
Born from the Stanford AI Lab, Cresta has raised more than $270 million from the world’s leading investors, including a16z, Greylock, and Sequoia. Cresta’s leadership includes some of the leading minds in AI today. Our CEO, Ping Wu, founded and led Google's Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platforms before joining Cresta to build the future of AI-driven customer experiences.
Over the next few years, AI is going to redefine how people all over the world interact with businesses every day. Come build that future at Cresta.
Cresta is excited to expand our operations to Romania and build a tech hub in the region. These early joiners will play a key role in establishing our engineering team in Romania, helping to shape the future of the site. We are a remote-first environment, offering opportunities to work with a global team across Europe, the US, and Canada. Over time, we aim to create a co-working space in Romania, moving towards a hybrid environment.
About your role:
As a Software Engineer, you will:
- Play a substantial role in the Cresta engineering team, focusing on building and continuously improving the Cresta platform to support new product requirements.
- Collaborate with Cresta's product and engineering teams to develop high-quality, well-designed, reusable, and well-tested system components.
- Stay closely aligned with customers and their requirements, analyzing technical trade-offs and owning customer-facing deliverables.
- Optimize platform design and implementation for lower latency, higher throughput, better reliability, and cost reduction.
- Demonstrate engineering best practices and uphold your team to the same high standards.
- Grow into technical ownership of significant parts of Cresta's product and platform.
- Contribute to building a best-in-class product and company.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in relevant domains.
- Proficiency in designing and maintaining clear and robust APIs based on strong understanding of various protocols including gRPC, REST, WebSocket, etc.
- Experience handling real-time streaming data (audio or video) with high throughput and low latency.
- Familiarity with high-performance database schema design and query optimization.
- Experience with containerized application deployment using Kubernetes.
- Hands-on experience with one of the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Conclusion:
Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, as well as applicable local pay requirements. We are actively hiring for this role in Romania, the US, and Canada.
We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored. If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to recruiting@cresta.ai