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Otter.ai

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Product)

$185K–$230K

Mountain View, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2020

Experience
5+ years.

About the job

Leads the design and delivery of backend systems and AI-powered product features, from concept through production, to turn conversations into useful user-facing outcomes.

What you'll do

  • Design and deliver AI-backed features and systems using LLMs, retrieval, and structured data.
  • Improve AI output quality through evaluation, user feedback, and experimentation.
  • Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and model effective use of AI-assisted development tools.

What they ask for

  • 5+ years building and scaling product-facing systems.
  • Track record of owning complex features or product areas end-to-end.
  • Writes clean, maintainable code; Python preferred, with architecture and design skills across a modern web stack.
  • Experience with AI/LLM-powered systems, or ability to ramp quickly and contribute to shaping their production behavior.

Nice to have

  • Experience building or experimenting with LLM-powered features, including prompting, evaluation, or RAG.
  • Exposure to user feedback loops, experimentation, or evaluation frameworks.

Pay

$185,000 to $230,000 USD per year (base salary)

Tools

Python, LLMs, RAG

AI focus

Build and operate AI product features, including LLM orchestration, retrieval, structured outputs, evaluation, and AI-assisted development.

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