Staff Software Engineer

Join us in bringing joy to customer experience. Five9 is a leading provider of cloud contact center software, bringing the power of cloud innovation to customers worldwide.

Living our values everyday results in our team-first culture and enables us to innovate, grow, and thrive while enjoying the journey together. We celebrate diversity and foster an inclusive environment, empowering our employees to be their authentic selves.

The team

The product engineering team drive the realization of practical AI solutions for the contact centre environment. Our existing Studio product stack is built on PHP / Laravel, Python and Vue.js technology deployed in private and public clouds. We leverage the latest cloud AI services such as Azure OpenAI, Google AI APIs, IBM Watson and Amazon Lex.

Our vision for practical AI involves equipping contact centre agents, supervisors and managers with user interfaces that guide and summarize their work, identify points of coaching and support, fully automate routine interactions and allow creation, deployment and ongoing management of the AI agents required. At the same time, Studio is being fully integrated into the well-developed Five9 micro-services platform. Role purpose

The role of a Staff Software Engineer in the R&D AI Automation Team is to design, develop, and maintain the software solution (Studio) with drag-drop flow builder and execution engine that integrates multiple channels like voice, SMS, and chatbot with the Five9 contact centre voice solution. The engineer's responsibilities include software design and development, testing and documentation across our backend, front-end and interaction management platforms to deliver end-to-end features, work with product owners and designers to expand the feature set and create high-quality user interfaces, take operational responsibility for the performance and quality of services owned by your team, potentially including taking part in an on-call rotation, deep dive into cutting edge technologies and work with the products team to transfer ideas into products. Ultimately, the role contributes to design process for new products and solutions.

How you contribute

• Understands various programming languages, frameworks, and development methodologies, which allow you to make informed decisions and solve complex technical challenges.
• Writing high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code that serves the purpose of scaling and tenancy management. Should follow coding best practices and contribute to developing software modules, features, and functionalities. Recognised as the go-to individual for tackling ambiguous or time-crunched tasks that challenge others.
• A natural coach and guide, sought after by peers for assistance. Actively mentors team members and develops adequate specifications. Capable of seamlessly filling gaps within other engineering and cross-functional teams, ensuring continuity and efficiency, even without key personnel.
• Ensure the development stays on track, milestones are met, and the project aligns with business objectives.
• Follows and contributes to processes, documentation, specifications, and APIs.

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Benefits Include

Five9 embraces diversity and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better we are. Five9 is an equal opportunity employer.

Note : Five9 will never request that an applicant send money as a prerequisite for commencing employment with Five9.

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