Staff Backend Engineer

Aurelian

$120K — $160K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals.
  • Desire to learn new skills.
  • Ability to thrive on autonomy and challenge.
  • Experience in building scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Architect core systems for voice AI and automation platform.
  • Drive engineering excellence through code reviews.
  • Solve technical problems related to AI performance and audio latency.
  • Create robust analytics solutions for decision-making.
  • Integrate customer systems seamlessly.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Unlimited paid time off (PTO).
  • Company-wide offsites for team building.
  • Equipment stipend for work-from-home setup.
  • Relocation assistance for moving employees.
  • Daily delivered lunches provided by the company.
  • Office located in Seattle, WA.
  • Opportunity for start-up equity.
Full Job Description
Why Join Us

Aurelian builds state of the art, multimodal conversational AI systems that help save lives. We work directly with 9-1-1 call centers to modernize emergency response workflows - where reliability, speed, and usability aren't "nice-to-haves," they're mission-critical.

We're hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to help build out the core systems that make up the Aurelian platform. You will solve complex, technical challenges ranging from optimizing latency in realtime AI pipelines, to building robust analytics solutions, and creating flexible solutions to integrate seamlessly with customer systems.

What You'll Be Doing

Among other things, you will:
  • Architect Core Systems: You will help architect core pieces of our voice AI and automation platform for reliability and scalability to help us serve 911 centers across the center in their most critical workflows.
  • Drive Engineering Excellence: You will raise technical standards, contribute to code review and maintenance processes, and help define what engineering excellence looks like at Aurelian.
  • Solve Hard Problems: You will solve hard technical problems across a wide range of domains - everything from building effective guardrails to optimizing audio pipeline latency to effectively evaluating AI performance.
Who We're Looking For
  • You thrive on autonomy and constantly seek out new challenges.
  • You have 6+ years of software engineering experience.
  • You have strong engineering fundamentals, you know your strengths but are always excited to learn new skills.


To learn more about what it's like to work at Aurelian, visit our About Us page and follow us on LinkedIn to stay up to date!

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification listed above. We believe exceptional people come from many different backgrounds, and we'd rather connect with you than miss the opportunity.

Come do the best work of your life and join us in shaping the future of critical technology that truly matters.

For Full-Time roles, Aurelian offers a variety of benefits, including:
  • Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision & Life insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Company-wide offsites
  • Equipment stipend
  • Relocation assistance
  • Daily delivered lunches (on us)
  • Office in Seattle
  • Start-up Equity

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