MERN Developer

You will:

• Collaborate with the I-Stem Voice AI team and CEO to design, build and ship new agent capabilities
• Develop, test and refine end-to-end voice agent models (ASR, NLU, dialog management, TTS)
• Stress-test agents in noisy, real-world scenarios and iterate for improved robustness and low latency
• Research and prototype cutting-edge techniques (e.g. robust speech recognition, adaptive language understanding)
• Partner with backend and frontend engineers to seamlessly integrate AI components into live voice products
• Monitor agent performance in production, analyze failure cases, and drive continuous improvement
• Occasionally demo our Voice AI solutions at industry events and user forums

You are:

• An AI/Software Engineer with hands-on experience in speech-centric ML (ASR, NLU or TTS)
• Skilled in building and tuning transformer-based speech models and handling real-time audio pipelines
• Obsessed with reliability: you design experiments to push agents to their limits and root-cause every error
• A clear thinker who deconstructs complex voice interactions from first principles
• Passionate about making voice technology inclusive and accessible for diverse users
• Comfortable moving fast in a small team, yet dogged about code quality, testing and reproducibility

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain both front-end and back-end components of web applications.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other developers to build user-friendly features.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code that adheres to coding standards and best practices.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Implement responsive design to ensure consistent user experience across all devices.
• Work with databases (SQL/NoSQL) and integrate with third-party services and APIs.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize application performance.
• Participate in code reviews, ensuring code quality and consistency across the team.
• Stay updated on the latest industry trends and best practices in full-stack development.
• Contribute to an agile development process, attending sprints, standups, and retrospectives.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role.
• Proficiency in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frameworks (React.js, Next.js, Angular, or Vue.js).
• Strong experience in back-end technologies such as Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, or PHP.
• Familiarity with database technologies (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Experience with version control systems, particularly Git.
• Knowledge of RESTful API design and integration.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud is a plus.
• Experience in microservices based architecture is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

Build and maintain products. Build products and features, through inception, design, implementation and launch, working closely with multiple disciplines across the company. You will spend the majority of your time working on critical projects which require focus on integrations, scalability, and performance. You will also be the first line of defense in ensuring that the product features are achievable and have a clear purpose, trimming off unnecessary detailing, especially in the earliest stages. Align across teams and stakeholders. Play a key role in ensuring that objectives and expectations are aligned across multiple concurrent products. You are expected to break down features within each project and prioritize tasks based on the expertise of the team, keeping redundancy in mind. 

Maintain a high bar for code quality and future proofing. Implement processes for checking in code that maintains a high bar of code quality. You are expected to optimize for a solution that affords the best user experience in a reasonable amount of time while ensuring to allow for adequate security, ability to scale in the future etc. 

Responsibilities

● Design, build and maintain scalable, secure web services and distributed systems

● Design and develop robust solutions for client onboarding, portfolio analytics, tokenized security issuance, authentication, and security

● Build solutions to integrate with APIs of external solutions providers including crypto custodians, exchanges, fund admins etc.

● Architecting and building frontend features in React.js

● Ensuring a highly performant and responsive UI

● Help maintain existing codebase, infrastructure, test coverage, and documentation

● Communicate requirements effectively within and across teams

● Independently work and lead project initiatives in a fast paced environment

Requirements

● 5+ years of work experience as a Senior Software Engineer or similarly senior member of a fast scaling company, ideally building products from ideation to launch with a strong engineering team. Web3 based experience preferred.

● Have experience in rapid prototyping of features across various products. Demonstrable open source contributions and experience with Git advantageous.

● Professional experience with Python, Javascript, Typescript, or Go

● Must have experience building and/or integrating with RESTful APIs

● Working knowledge of Django, FastAPI, or React.js and Redux

● Working knowledge various frontend frameworks and languages such as HTML, CSS

● Experience monitoring and scaling microservice-oriented systems

● Familiarity with websocket architecture and implementation

● Experience working with cloud-native AWS infrastructure and/or Kubernetes

● Team-building and technical leadership experience

● Being nimble and reacting quickly to changing business conditions

● BTech in Computer Science or a related field (Masters is a plus

Benefits

● Competitive salary, benefits & participation in the firm's ESOP program

● Be part of something exciting. Rare opportunity to come in early and build the next generation of institutional grade financial services.

● International work environment and flat organization. Possibility for relocation and international transfers mid-career

• You will be part of a collaborative project team
• Will leverage several proprietary and standard tools to implement technical solutions.
• Responsible for understanding business requirements, providing estimation, developing solution, writing unit test scenarios and fixing defects for assigned applications.