Software Engineer, Character.ai
Backend
$150-250k
Offers Equity
Office located in Menlo Park, CA
AI natural language chatbot
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AI natural language chatbot
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-250k
Offers Equity
Office located in Menlo Park, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in backend development, building scalable and reliable applications
- Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go. Python and Go are preferred
- Experience with database technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or NoSQL solutions
- Familiarity with designing and integrating APIs, including REST and GraphQL
- Understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to optimize system performance and reliability
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment
Desirable
- Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
- Knowledge of caching strategies and performance optimization techniques
- Experience working on large-scale, high-traffic applications
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices
- Exposure to machine learning or data-driven applications
What the job involves
- We are looking for a talented and motivated Backend Engineer to join our team
- You will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable, high-performance backend systems that power our products
- Collaborating with designers, data scientists, and engineers, you'll play a key role in conceptualizing, designing, and delivering robust and efficient backend solutions
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services that support our applications and infrastructure
- Implement secure and efficient APIs to support frontend applications and third-party integrations
- Optimize system performance, reliability, and scalability through effective architecture and engineering best practices
- Work closely with product managers, data analysts, and frontend engineers to develop backend solutions that align with business and user needs
- Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and performance of backend systems
- Monitor system health, troubleshoot issues, and implement improvements to enhance efficiency and stability
- Maintain security best practices to protect user data and system integrity
- Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies in backend development and distributed systems
Our take
Search engines have long been a boon to productivity, but a long period of heavy advertising, content and SEO spam and malicious actors have limited the effectiveness of traditional keyword searching. Recently, conversational AI assistants have arrived, allowing non-specialists to navigate an increasingly difficult sea of data and return with relevant information, presented in a usable and sometimes very entertaining way.
Character.ai is one of the more recent entries in this increasingly crowded field that has only grown more heated since the public release of ChatGPT in late 2022. However, compared to Microsoft and OpenAI's offerings, Character.ai stands out with a more playful personality - its bots can mimic the voices of celebrities, historical persons and popular characters. This has led to users spending vastly more time interacting with Character.ai's bots compared to the competition: nearly three times longer on average than with ChatGPT, for instance.
Following a period of rapid user growth, Character.ai closed a major funding round at a valuation exceeding $1 billion. While it is currently enjoying meteoric success, in the longer term, Character.ai's challenge is to develop a funding model that will give it the staying power it will need to compete against OpenAI and other major firms in the market. A solution it is currently exploring is research-based partnerships with large companies such as Musk's xAI and Meta.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2023
$150m
SERIES A
Total funding: $150m
Company HQ
Menlo Park, CA
Leadership
Noam Shazeer
(CEO)Previously worked at Google for almost 20 years as a Software Engineer then Principal Software Engineer.
Daniel De Freitas
(President)Before co-founding Character.ai was a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Google. Prior to that, they were a Software Engineer at Microsoft.
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