Senior Software Engineer, Backend (AI Agent Integrations)

Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, and co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.

Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta.

Cresta’s AI Agent team is building enterprise-grade AI Agents that can operate inside real-world contact center environments. A critical part of that mission is enabling our AI Agents to seamlessly integrate with customers’ CCaaS platforms (Contact Center as a Service), including voice and digital channels — and to smoothly transition conversations between AI and human agents when needed.

This role is focused on building the backend systems that allow our AI Agents to:

• Integrate deeply with leading CCaaS platforms
• Participate in live customer conversations across voice and chat
• Maintain full conversation state and context
• Perform real-time actions within the CCaaS ecosystem
• Seamlessly hand off conversations to human agents — without losing context, history, or workflow state
• Support human agents with AI assistance after transfer

We are looking for strong backend engineers who want to work at the intersection of distributed systems, real-time communication, enterprise integrations, and AI Agent orchestration.

This is not a pure research role — it is about building production-grade infrastructure that enables AI Agents to operate reliably in mission-critical customer environments.

• AI + Real-Time Systems: Work on infrastructure that enables AI Agents to participate in live conversations at scale.
• Enterprise-Grade Integrations: Design robust integrations with major CCaaS platforms and customer systems.
• Human-AI Collaboration: Build the systems that make AI-to-human handoff seamless, contextual, and reliable.
• High-Impact Engineering: Your work directly determines how smoothly AI Agents operate in production environments.

If you’re a strong backend engineer who wants to apply your expertise to real-world AI systems operating inside complex enterprise ecosystems, this role offers that opportunity.

• →We offer Cresta employees a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs
• →Paid parental leave to support you and your family
• →Monthly Health & Wellness allowance
• →Work from home office stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
• →Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees 
• →PTO: 3 weeks in Canada 

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in the US and Canada. Your recruiter can provide further details.

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