Senior Software Engineer - Backend (AI Platform)

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Contribute to India's largest Voice AI platform by developing scalable systems that enhance real-time AI interactions and workflow automation across diverse industries.

Experience: 3–6 Years
Location: Bengaluru (Work from Office)
Team: Blue Machines – Apna’s Agentic AI Platform

About Blue Machines

Blue Machines by Apna is building the next generation of large-scale Voice & AI Agent Infrastructure, powering millions of real-time conversations, interviews, and workflow automations across industries. Our platform handles Tens of millions of voice minutes and integrates deeply with telephony, AI models, and real-time streaming systems — all built for scale, reliability, and intelligence.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) who can design and build high-scale, low-latency systems for our AI and voice platform. The ideal candidate will have strong backend engineering fundamentals, experience with distributed systems, and curiosity about Voice AI, WebRTC, and SIP-based integrations.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop scalable microservices and backend systems that power real-time AI and voice workflows.
  • Own end-to-end system design — from architecture, APIs, and data models to deployment and monitoring.
  • Optimize systems for performance, concurrency, and fault tolerance at high scale.
  • Implement best practices for observability, testing, and resilience (Datadog, Sentry, etc.).
  • Collaborate with product and AI teams to evolve the platform’s multi-agent orchestration and automation layer.

Requirements

Must-Have Skills

  • 3–6 years of backend development experience in Python or Java.
  • Strong grasp of system design, concurrency, and distributed systems.
  • Experience building scalable, high-availability APIs or streaming systems.
  • Familiarity with WebRTC, SIP, RTP, or other real-time communication protocols.
  • Experience with cloud environments (GCP/AWS) and containerized deployments (Kubernetes, Docker).
  • Sound understanding of databases (MongoDB, Redis, Postgres) and message queues (Kafka, Pub/Sub).

Good to Have

  • Exposure to Voice AI, Speech Processing, or AI Agent frameworks.
  • Experience integrating LLMs, vector DBs, or real-time AI inference systems.
  • Prior work on AI-driven or telephony-driven platforms at scale.

Benefits

Why Join Us

  • Work on India’s largest Voice AI and Agentic Automation platform, shaping how enterprises interact with AI.
  • Collaborate with a world-class team building scalable real-time systems that push latency and reliability limits.
  • Opportunity to grow into architecture, infra, or AI platform leadership roles as Blue Machines scales globally.

Founded in 2019, the Apna mobile app is India’s largest professional networking platform dedicated to helping India’s burgeoning working class to unlock unique professional networking, and skilling opportunities. The app is currently live in 14 cities - Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Ranchi, Kolkata, Surat, Lucknow, Kanpur, Ludhiana, and Chandigarh. Having raised $90+ million from marquee investors like Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Lightspeed India, Sequoia Capital, Rocketship.vc and Greenoaks Capital, Apna is on a mission to enable livelihoods for billions in India. With over 10 million users, present in 14 cities and counting, and over 100,000 employers that trust the platform - India has a new destination to discover relevant opportunities.

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