Software Development Engineer 2 - Backend

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Must-Have Skills :

- 3 - 6 years of software engineering experience, preferably building production backend systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience building production-grade Python applications.
- Robust understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
- Experience building and maintaining REST APIs and backend microservices.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, asynchronous programming, and scalable architectures.
- Experience working with databases such as MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, or similar technologies.
- Good understanding of Docker, CI/CD, Linux, and cloud environments.
- Experience integrating with LLM/GenAI APIs and building AI-powered applications.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex production issues.
- Good understanding of software engineering fundamentals including testing, observability, logging,



monitoring, and code quality.

Strongly Preferred :

- Hands-on experience building Voice AI / Conversational AI systems.
- Experience working with STT, TTS, LLM, VAD, voice streaming, or real-time audio pipelines.
- Experience with frameworks/platforms such as Pipecat, LiveKit, WebRTC, or similar real-time AI frameworks.
- Experience with telephony/SIP/WebSocket-based systems.
- Experience building AI agents, agentic workflows, tool calling, function calling, or multi-agent systems.
- Experience with streaming APIs and real-time systems.
- Experience optimizing latency, throughput, concurrency, and reliability of AI/voice applications.
- Familiarity with observability platforms such as Sentry, OpenTelemetry, Langfuse, Prometheus, or Grafana.
- Experience deploying AI applications on AWS, GCP, or Azure.

📌 Haptik - Software Development Engineer II - Backend Architecture (India)
🏢 Haptik
📍 India