Senior Backend Engineer

Backend Developer
Chennai
January 26, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

MeetStream AI is the world’s first agentic infrastructure for meetings, enabling AI agents to actively participate in conversations across Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. These agents join calls as participants, understand context in real time, trigger product workflows (Jira updates, CRM actions, follow-up tasks), execute autonomous behaviors, and deliver transcripts, insights, and analytics – all without human intervention.

We’re powering the future of how meetings will be taken – making AI-led meetings a possibility. 

We’re backed by top global investors, moving fast, and building a world-class engineering team that thrives at the intersection of real-time media, cloud infrastructure, and distributed backend systems.

If you obsess over clean code, efficient systems, zero memory leaks, and building infrastructure that never slows down – you’ll love this role.

About The Role

As a Senior Backend Engineer at MeetStream AI, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing backend systems that power our agentic meeting infrastructure. You will work across real-time media pipelines, event-driven microservices, serverless workloads, and multi-provider integrations.

You will focus on:

  • Building scalable features and microservices
  • Ensuring high performance of video/audio streaming paths
  • Writing efficient, memory-safe, and reliable backend code
  • Improving and extending our existing GMeet/Zoom/Teams integrations
  • Designing resilient event pipelines and queue-based workflows
  • Collaborating with the team to improve architecture, reliability, and observability

What We’re Looking For

  • 3 – 6+ years of strong backend engineering experience
  • Proven experience shipping production systems end-to-end
  • Ability to write high-efficiency, memory-safe backend code
  • Comfortable working with Python, C++, JavaScript, Node.js (knowing all is not required, but flexibility is)
  • Excitement about real-time automation, agentic systems, and distributed architectures
  • Ability to design systems that are scalable, observable, and maintainable
  • Comfortable reading and integrating complex APIs (Google/Zoom/Teams)
  • Strong debugging skills and the ability to troubleshoot production issues
  • Clear communication and ability to collaborate closely with peers
  • Ownership mindset, bias toward action, and ability to work independently when needed

You don’t need to be a founding-level generalist, but you must be a strong engineer who can own features and deliver high-quality backend systems.

Non-Negotiable Skills

  • Strong experience designing, building, and deploying backend services
  • Ability to write clean, efficient, memory-leak-free code
  • Designing robust APIs (REST, webhooks, internal service contracts)
  • Experience with AWS serverless architecture (Lambda, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, CloudWatch)
  • Experience with real-time data flows: audio/video, WebRTC, or low-latency event processing
  • Building queue-backed workflows with retries, idempotency, and error handling
  • Strong debugging and troubleshooting experience in distributed systems
  • Logs, metrics, tracing, alarms – production readiness is a must
  • Brilliant with Docker, containers, networking fundamentals, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Actively leverage modern AI development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) to speed up execution, improve code quality, and iterate faster
  • Participating in code reviews and improving code quality

Good To Have Skills

  • Experience with Rust or Go
  • Advanced schema design and partition strategy
  • Experience with high-throughput streaming systems
  • Strong performance optimization mindset
  • Understanding of OAuth flows and provider integrations
  • Familiarity with media pipelines or video infrastructure

Ideal Profile

We’re looking for engineers who:

  • Have built meaningful systems that users rely on
  • Care about correctness, performance, and code quality
  • Can go deep technically but ship fast
  • Learn new tools and frameworks quickly
  • Can contribute to architectural decisions without needing full ownership
  • Thrive in fast-moving environments
  • Handle complexity with clarity and calmness

This Role Is NOT for You If

  • You prefer only narrow or isolated tasks
  • You need constant guidance or micro-management
  • You avoid production debugging or distributed systems
  • You expect slow cycles or low-intensity engineering
  • You want strict work-life boundaries – this is a high-velocity team.

Location & Compensation

Chennai, India or Ready to Relocate to Chennai, India

Full-time role which includes:

  • Competitive salary
  • Equity 
  • Gym membership 
  • Accelerated path to senior/founding roles



Why Join MeetStream AI

  • High Impact: Your work directly powers real-time meeting agents used by enterprises.
  • Hard Engineering Problems: Real-time media, serverless pipelines, multi-cloud infra.
  • Career Growth: Move into staff-level ownership as the platform scales.
  • Deep Tech Exposure: Build systems very few companies in the world are building.

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