Software Engineer

Telnyx
United States
7 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$208,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

JavaScript (Programming Language) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Agile Methodology Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Component-Based Software Engineering Mobile Application Development Cloud Computing Code Review Databases Continuous Integration Cursor
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Github Python (Programming Language) PostgreSQL Machine Learning Open Source Technology Performance Tuning Query Optimization RabbitMQ Next.js Software Engineering SQLAlchemy TypeScript Data Storage Technologies ReactJS Large Language Models Claude Code Snowflake Multi-Agent Systems AI Coding Agents Backend Git Fastapi Data Layers Pytest Kubernetes Information Technology Apache Kafka Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Docker Jenkins Crud

Job description

We’re looking for a senior engineer who lives at the seam between software, operations and AI. You’ve built systems where an order POST doesn’t end at a database row - it ends at a carrier activating a real phone number in another country, subject to that country’s rules. And increasingly, it ends with an AI agent deciding - reliably, auditable, in milliseconds - whether that order flows straight through or needs a human.

You’ll join the team that owns Telnyx’s phone-number inventory and the entire ordering pipeline behind it. The stack is Python, the domain is global telephony, and the roadmap is near-total automation: if a step in the pipeline is done by a human today, we’re building the system that takes that step away.

What You’ll Own

  • The ordering pipeline - async Python services that turn a search-and-order API call into a provisioned, billable phone number: job queues, retries, rollbacks on partial failure, SLA clocks, and backorder (advanced order) fulfillment where lead-time promises have contractual weight. Tens of thousands of orders a week run through this today.
  • Vendor & carrier integrations - dozens of them, from US Tier-1 wholesale carriers to international carriers and regulated-market vendors. Each integration is its own Snowflake - idiosyncratic APIs, failure modes, and regulatory constraints. You’ll make them behave like one system.
  • The AI order-review layer - a production LLM service that reads orders and customer-submitted regulatory documents and auto-approves by country, number type, and carrier, governed by allowlists, score thresholds, and full audit logs. You’ll own expanding its coverage safely: evals, guardrails, regression suites, and clean handoffs to humans when the machine isn’t sure.
  • Regulatory automation - per-country identity/documentation checks (“requirement groups”), external document-verification vendors, expiry and re-verification flows - automated end-to-end in 45+ countries we hold carrier licences in.
  • The data layer - a large Postgres-based warehouse and Metabase analytics serving stock, SLA, and order-lifecycle dashboards used daily by ops and leadership, across a 30+ microservice estate; alerting on stock risk, vendor SLA breaches, and pipeline health.

Tech stack (what you’ll actually touch)

  • Python 3 (asyncio, FastAPI/aiohttp, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, pydantic), pytest, mypy/ruff
  • LLM tooling: model APIs, structured output, agent orchestration, prompt/scoring configuration, offline eval harnesses
  • PostgreSQL at scale: schema design, migrations on live systems, query tuning, warehouse SQL
  • RabbitMQ/Kafka, Consul, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker/OCI, GitHub Actions
  • Metabase, and TypeScript/Next.js for internal dashboards (not required - the backend is yours), * Not a pure CRUD role. Every row in this system is a real phone number somewhere - on a carrier, under a regulator, promised to a customer, watched by an SLA.
  • Not an ML research role. You’ll build applied AI that approves real transactions - no notebooks in production, no fine-tuning required., Designs and builds scalable applications using React and Python, contributing to component development, data storage, deployment practices, performance optimization, testing, and client requirements analysis. The role collaborates with technical leaders, clients, and distributed teams in agile environments, using Git, code reviews, cloud platforms, databases, and AI-native development practices. U.S.-based travel to client sites is required., Evaluate AI coding agents such as Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor for engineering judgment, response quality, reasoning, explanations, and usefulness. Provide clear written and recorded feedback, distinguish quality levels, and help define standards for excellent AI-assisted development interactions. This contract role requires senior-level software engineering experience, strong Python or TypeScript/JavaScript skills, familiarity with modern AI development workflows, and excellent English communication. Top Skills: Claude CodeCursorJavaScriptLoomOpenai CodexPythonTypescript Houst

Senior Software Engineer

15 Days Ago In-Office or Remote Georgia, USA 5K-6K Annually Senior level 5K-6K Annually Senior level Real Estate Build and operate Python backend services, APIs, and React frontends for a property-management platform. Use AI coding tools extensively for planning, implementation, reviews, testing, and evaluation. Own features end to end, integrate third-party platforms, maintain CI/CD and observability, support safe AWS releases, and collaborate with product and operations. Mentor teammates through code reviews and help establish effective AI-assisted engineering practices. Top Skills: AWSCircleCIClaude CodeCodexCursorDockerElastic StackFlaskGithub ActionsPostgresPython 3ReactReact NativeRedisSqlalchemy

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Requirements

  • 5+ years of backend engineering, with strong production async Python.
  • You’ve owned systems that talk to many external services and lived with the async-job, retry, rollback, and eventual-consistency problems that creates.
  • You can make an LLM trustworthy in a real flow: validation, scoring thresholds, evals, audit, and human-in-the-escalation. You know where AI is reliable and where it’s theater.
  • Postgres beyond ORM basics - you can read a plan, write a migration on a live system, and know why SKIP LOCKED matters.
  • You’re a pragmatist about process automation - a workflow isn’t done when the ticket closes, it’s done when the human step is gone and the numbers prove it.
  • Strong written communication across a distributed team (EMEA + Americas).

Bonus points for

  • Telecom/CPaaS background: DID inventory, ordering, porting (NPAC), carrier provisioning, regulatory/KYC familiarity.
  • Experience with document/KYC verification vendors (Onfido, Sumsub, Jumio) or OCR pipelines.
  • Building with agents beyond work: MCP servers, tool-calling frameworks, open-source agent runtimes.
  • Warehouse/analytics engineering; internal-dashboard work in TypeScript.

Benefits & conditions

Own Telnyx’s global phone-number ordering pipeline, carrier integrations, regulatory automation, AI-powered order review, and Postgres data layer. Build reliable async Python services with retries, rollbacks, queues, SLA monitoring, document verification, auditability, and human escalation. Improve automation across dozens of vendors and 45+ countries while maintaining dashboards, analytics, and operational alerts across a large microservice estate. The summary above was generated by AI

About the company

About Telnyx

Telnyx is an industry leader that’s not just imagining the future of global connectivity-we’re building it. From architecting and amplifying the reach of a private, global, multi-cloud IP network, to bringing hyperlocal edge technology right to your fingertips through intuitive APIs, we’re shaping a new era of seamless interconnection between people, devices, and applications.

We’re driven by a desire to transform and modernize what’s antiquated, automate the manual, and solve real-world problems through innovative connectivity solutions. As a testament to our success, we’re proud to stand as a financially stable and profitable company. Our robust profitability allows us not only to invest in pioneering technologies but also to foster an environment of continuous learning and growth for our team.

Our collective vision is a world where borderless connectivity fuels limitless innovation. By joining us, you can be part of laying the foundations for this interconnected future. We’re currently seeking passionate individuals who are excited about the opportunity to contribute to an industry-shaping company while growing their own skills and careers.

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