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Senior Backend Engineer

About Phonely

Phonely is building a platform to handle billions of calls made every day with AI. They provide a solution for call centers to build, simulate, and deploy voice agents. Phonely has grown rapidly through YC and works with the largest contact centers in the world.

Job Description

We’re looking for a senior backend engineer to work on core systems that drive live voice conversations in production. This is a hands-on role with a lot of ownership and a lot of Python. Responsibilities include building Python-based state systems for real-time voice AI conversations, integrating multiple LLM providers, writing high-performance async Python, designing and testing resilient agent logic and microservices, and operating and improving production systems with strong observability. Requirements include 5+ years of Python experience, experience with FastAPI, testing, and CI/CD, strong system design and security fundamentals, and familiarity with LLMs, cloud infrastructure, AWS, and Kubernetes.

Location

San Francisco

Salary

Not Specified

Benefits

Company-paid meals, great culture, periodic international work trips.

Tech Tags

AWSAsyncioDatadogFastapiFirebaseKubernetesPythonRedisSipSupabase

Senior Role

Date Listed

03 February, 2026 (4 months ago)
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