Senior Software Engineer

Boost.ai is a leading conversational AI company specializing in building virtual agents that automate customer service and internal support channels, enhance human efficiency and drive revenue through engaging conversations.

Headquartered in Stavanger, Norway and Los Angeles, USA, our accomplishments to date include recognition by Gartner as the youngest vendor in the conversational AI space, established partnerships with leading professional services firms and deploying 200+ virtual agents that have successfully automated over 20 million conversations with customers, users and employees across Europe and North America.

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will boost our capacity in developing the backend services that power our world-class conversational AI platform.

Your responsibilities will include the full lifecycle software development of our Internet-facing backend services. With our steep growth curve, you will solve many interesting challenges related to scaling, high-availability, performance and security.

You will be working on:

• Our flow engine, which is the central component that coordinates the interaction between our AI subsystems to interpret and craft replies to users
• Our conversation search, aggregation and metrics engines. These sift through millions of conversations in seconds to deliver key insights on a virtual agent’s performance
• Hundreds of cloud databases, creating rock-solid data structures and highly performant algorithms to be used by the rest of the organization, all while ensuring constant uptime

Qualifications

• Overall strong software engineering skills
• Demonstrable proficiency in Python and relational databases
• Deep knowledge of HTTP server/client architectures on Linux systems
• Able to analyze key characteristics of data structures and algorithms
• You have years of relevant experience... or you're just really, really good

Personal qualities

• You're looking to push the boundaries in whatever you do
• You’re ambitious and structured with high work capacity.
• You're a team player but are also not afraid to undertake solo missions

What’s in it for you?

• An engaging work environment with people who share a common mindset; to deliver a world-class product in a brand new, up-and-coming industry.
• Leading-edge technology: in just three years we have grown from 6 employees, with no clients, to over 100 employees and more than 170 clients
• Young, dynamic and extremely motivated colleagues in all departments, both professionally and socially.
• Challenging, varied and engaging work tasks.
• Room and encouragement to be independent and innovative.
• Opportunities for a very steep career path.
• Competitive salary and exciting bonus schemes.
• In-house gym and other benefits.

Please submit your application using the appropriate form - we’re looking forward to hearing from you and what you can bring to our company!

• During the recruitment process, we interview the appropriate candidates quickly and continuously - until we find the right candidate. We recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible.
• It is an absolute requirement of the position to be able to work on-premise in Stavanger, Norway. We do not hire anyone for remote positions.