Software Engineer, Cresta
Backend (AI Agent)
+ Equity
Real-time intelligence for contact centers
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Real-time intelligence for contact centers
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To use AI to help people learn high-value skills and make business radically more productive.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 2+ years of experience in backend system architecture, cloud services, or related technology fields
- Knowledge in designing and maintaining clear and robust APIs with a strong understanding of protocols including gRPC, REST
- Experience in high-performance database schema design and query optimization, including knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience in containerized application deployment using Kubernetes and Docker in microservices architectures
- Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, with a strong understanding of cloud security and compliance standards
- Bonus: experience working with Virtual Agent or AI Agent systems
What the job involves
- At Cresta, the AI Agent team is on a mission to create state-of-the-art AI Agents that solve practical problems for our customers
- We are focused on leveraging the latest technologies in Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI Agent systems, while ensuring that the solutions we develop are cost-effective, secure, and reliable
- This role will involve hands-on work on cutting-edge projects, requiring innovative and passionate software engineers who can bring research into practical, scalable applications
- As a Software Engineer, your goal will be to ensure that our AI Agents are backed by the most reliable and scalable server solutions
- This includes designing and maintaining the server architecture that handles real-world, high-volume interactions and ensures high availability and performance
- While we’re focused on server optimization and data management rather than pure research, you’ll be working with some of the most advanced technologies in the cloud and server space
- This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI at Cresta by solving complex problems and bringing breakthrough AI advancements into production environments
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and robust backend architectures for Cresta’s AI Agent solutions and proprietary models
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including frontend engineers, machine learning engineers to ensure seamless integration of AI Agents into Cresta’s customer solutions
- Lead initiatives to enhance system scalability and reliability in production environments, focusing on backend services that support AI functionalities
- Drive efforts to optimize server response times, process large volumes of data efficiently, and maintain high system availability
- Innovate and implement security measures, cost-reduction strategies, and performance improvements in backend systems supporting AI Agents
Our take
Cresta is an innovative customer service platform, which leverages artificial intelligence in order to assist sales and service agents in improving their performance. The platform identifies the best employees, and analyses why they outperform their colleagues, before providing personalized guidance to other members of staff.
This unique approach makes it possible to share best practices rapidly, and both improve and consistently implement customer service across an organisation. The app is fully compatible with mobile platforms, effectively providing an expert at every customer touch point. In addition to this, the machine learning aspect of Cresta enables companies to continually optimize their performance.
Considering that over a trillion dollars is spent by businesses globally on customer service calls every year, Cresta has been afforded a massive opportunity if it can continue to improve this side of business for its clients. The company has already been recognized as an innovator in the space, and the expansion of its AI solutions suggests it is poised and ready to move with the times and find further success.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2024
$125m
SERIES D
Mar 2022
$80m
SERIES C
Total funding: $276m
Company benefits
- Work with an A+ team of ex-Founders, world leading scientists, and nationally competitive athletes
- Weekly lunch & learn
- Mentorship - A world class mentorship board advises and mentors our team-members to capture the opportunity ahead of us
Company values
- Don't accept the customer's status quo. Obsess over inventing on behalf of the customer. 99% of the world's innovations have yet to be discovered.
- Hustle after every ball. Every day, every line of code and each team member collectively builds the bigger picture. Don't settle for stagnation and don't settle for a no - find a way.
- Trust and amplify. We are building a long term team. Implicitly trust the team and show respect to everyone. Deliver direct and candid feedback - it helps everyone grow. Build bridges that invest in others.
- Move with speed, not haste. Speed is critical. Our success depends on our pace of innovation. However, technical debt is real. Build with the long term plan in mind.
- Obsess over the result. Move with determination, intensity and focus on the customer's result. Value the team's ego over individual ego: the best idea and result wins.
- Have a leader's mindset. Leaders set the benchmark for behavior and inspire others to grow. It's never why the company does something - it's our company, let's build it.
Company HQ
University South, Palo Alto, CA
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