Staff Engineer

Slang.ai is redefining customer engagement through conversational AI, making every interaction seamless and efficient. Our mission is to transform the restaurant industry by providing the ultimate voice AI solution for consistently outstanding customer experiences. At Slang.ai, we foster a culture of innovation, inclusivity, and growth, ensuring that every "Slangsta" (employee) feels valued and connected to our broader AI driven impact.

At Slang you would be among our most senior software engineers, driving the development of robust, scalable backend systems that power conversational solutions for full-service restaurants. In this role, you'll leverage your deep JVM expertise and domain-driven design principles to architect and implement systems that seamlessly blend telephony, cloud infrastructure, and AI capabilities into cohesive, maintainable software.

This role has high impact technical leadership responsibilities. As one of our most senior engineers, you'll work across our telephony and platform stack, collaborating closely with our Platform & Data pod and serving as a technical mentor to our broader engineering organization (~10 people total) in software engineering best practices. You'll help establish architectural patterns that ensure our systems are modular, testable, and adaptable to changing requirements.

Within your pod, you'll focus on designing and implementing elegant backend services using Kotlin, crafting thoughtful data models for Firestore, and ensuring our containerized services operate reliably in Google Cloud Platform environments. You'll work with telephony providers like Twilio and conversational AI platforms like Dialogflow to create seamless communication experiences, while also guiding the implementation of proper monitoring and observability solutions. Your architectural decisions and engineering leadership will directly influence the entire engineering team's productivity and the quality of our customer-facing systems.

At Slang Engineering, we cultivate a space where everyone can dream big, own their impact, and innovate boldly – all while having fun and supporting each other along the way. We put an emphasis on collaboration, and we are split into small teams with different responsibilities and ownership. We engage in hack-a-thons to allow people to find time to bring real innovation, unchained from our day-to-day work and priorities. We are a fully remote company, but also have a New York city office space, for those who are local or in town and want a hub.