Backend Engineer, Recall
$235k
+ 0.20% - 0.50% Equity
Will sponsor
5 days a week in office
Universal API for meeting bots
Job no longer available
Universal API for meeting bots
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$235k
+ 0.20% - 0.50% Equity
Will sponsor
5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide a simple API to a problem that typically takes our customers more than a year to build in house.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of software development experience
- Deep customer empathy, including the desire to speak with customers and make product decisions
- Strong ability to learn new technologies and be productive in unfamiliar domains
- Bonus points: Previously founded a startup. Extra bonus for a dev-tools startup
- You love writing code, but you love having impact more: We’re a team of engineers at heart, but our #1 goal is building the best possible product. That means making pragmatic choices and looking for 80/20 solutions
- You’re great at “figuring it out”:** [Recall.ai](http://Recall.ai) is a low-structure, high-trust environment. There’s minimal process, and we’re growing so fast that circumstances are constantly changing. If you can take a high level goal and independently figure out how to achieve it, you’ll fit in great
- You don’t give up:** The most impactful problems we’ve solved initially seemed impossible. We work in a uniquely hard problem domain, and every important problem needs heaps of persistence
- You want to be a founder:** Joining early at a fast-growing, high-talent-density startup is the best thing you can do if you want to be a founder. Anything you want to learn about startups or the business, we’ll teach you
What the job involves
- You'll be our seventh engineering hire in our downtown SF office
- You'll have full ownership over major product features, have a major role in creating the culture of our engineering team and will be working closely with the founders
- You will develop high performance real-time code, deploy to large scale infrastructure, and process massive volumes of data
- To give you a sense of the problem space you’ll be working in:
- We process over **1TB per second** of raw video at peak load
- We launched **2 million+ EC2 instances** in the last month
- Build the core product, from APIs, to real-time video processing pipelines. Be independent and own major features through development and deployment
- Operate, scale and extend our extensive video processing infrastructure. You'll be responsible for running your code in production
- Work directly with customers to solve their problems. All team members participate in customer support in order to drive empathy for our users and help us build better products
- Knowledge of our tech is not necessary, but if you're curious, we use:
- API Frontend: Django
- Real-time Video Processing: Rust
- Database: Postgres
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes running on AWS EKS. All infrastructure managed through Terraform
Our take
Recall.ai provides a universal API for meeting bots across platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. This API enables companies to capture and process data from virtual meetings, facilitating the development of AI-powered tools such as sales coaching bots and automated meeting note-takers.
What sets Recall.ai apart is its ability to streamline a complex integration process, typically requiring extensive time and resources, into a simple, scalable solution. This infrastructure is comparable to cloud computing services, offering a foundational layer upon which other companies can build their AI-driven products.
Recall.ai has achieved significant success, evidenced by exceptional growth and an impressive annual recurring revenue. With backing from Y Combinator and a strong Series A funding round, the company is expanding its team and enhancing its integrations, positioning itself at the forefront of the AI and remote work transformation.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2025
$38m
SERIES B
May 2024
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $50.9m
Company benefits
- 100% covered, top-of-the-line health insurance, dental, and vision
- Computer and workspace enhancements
- Unlimited PTO
- Quarterly company off-sites with the team and explore exciting destinations around the world
- Opportunity to play a critical role in building the foundations of the company and GTM culture
Company HQ
The Castro, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
David Gu
(Co-Founder & CEO)Also Co-founder and CEO for Perfect Recall (W20) and prior to this worked as a Software Engineer at Wish.
Amanda Zhu
(Co-Founder)Also Co-Founded Perfect Recall (W20), before this worked as a Software Engineer at Edisoft.
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