Founding Software Engineer

Strello Health is a pioneering company focused on developing AI-powered voice agents for the healthcare sector. They are seeking a Founding Software Engineer to build and manage the core systems that will drive their voice agent platform, ensuring reliable and low-latency infrastructure for real-time interactions.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core platform services (API gateways, voice processing pipelines, LLM orchestration, context engineering frameworks)
• Build infrastructure for real-time audio streaming and processing with <100ms latency requirements
• Create robust integration layers with LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.) and speech services
• Develop monitoring, observability, and debugging tools for voice conversations
• Optimize for cost and performance as we scale to thousands of clinics
• Own production deployments and rotating on-call responsibilities
• Make architectural decisions that will shape our technical foundation
• Be an engineering thought leader within the company in relevant fields

Skills

• Deep experience with Linux-like systems, and managing bare-metal servers
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems and APIs
• Understanding of real-time systems or streaming data
• Excited to learn about LLMs and voice technology
• 1+ years of experience in backend or platform software engineering (co-op experience counts)
• Previous experience building 0 to 1 systems that scaled
• Deep experience with distributed systems, micro-services architecture
• Comfortable making technical decisions with limited information
• Previous work with ML infrastructure or LLM applications is a bonus
• Experience with real-time systems (WebRTC, WebSockets) is a major plus
• Previous contributions to open-source projects (link them!) is a bonus
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes deployments in production
• Experience building scaled production Node.js systems is a bonus

Benefits

• 0.25-1% equity

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