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Staff Engineer

PythonKubernetesSF · Staff · Seed

About Kastle

What You’ll Do

  • Architect and own core systems that power real-time AI voice and compliance workflows

  • Push performance boundaries, delivering sub-700ms latency leveraging event driven architecture and parallel processing

  • Deploy, operate, scale, resilient systems using Kubernetes and distributed sub-systems

  • Build a self-improving AI system that improves with every customer interaction and human feedback

  • Ship fast, ship right from whiteboard design to live production in bank environments.

What You Bring

  • Strong fundamentals in building high-performance, real-time backend systems (we work primarily in Python).

  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, reliability, and fault tolerance.

  • Excellent database design and performance optimization skills.

  • A bias for ownership and an ability to figure things out in messy, high-velocity environments

Nice to Have

  • Experience with training, designing, or building production AI/ML systems

  • Previous startup or founder experience.

The Interview Process

We respect your time. Our process is short and designed to let you showcase how you think:

  1. 15-min call with Talent Lead to learn more about the role

  2. 1-hour live coding session with Founding Engineer

  3. 1-day onsite with team

Why join Kastle

  • Opportunity to work with a world class team building a generational AI company that will redefine how every loan in America is made and managed

  • Ability to move fast while your work impacting millions of customers. Add a new feature in a few days and ship it to top 10 lenders the next week.

  • Competitive Compensation + Meaningful Equity at a high growth company

  • High ownership and direct input on product direction, company culture, and how the FDE function scales

Other Perks and Benefits

  • Free gym membership

  • Robust medical, vision, & dental coverage

  • 401(K) plan offering

  • Paid Company Meals

  • Company offsites to get to know the team

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