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LivePerson is an online engagement solutions company, which means that it works with clients to provide their customers with real, live assistance and advice. The company was found
Software Development Engineer II
Location
United States
Posted
94 days ago
Salary
$130K - $150K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Software Development Engineer II
LivePerson
• Learn new technologies and architectures, including work with uniform data layers, integrations with contact center providers, and new product development. • Work with leadership to bring your engineering experience to the table and ideate new features and functionality. • Design, build, and maintain Python-based backend services that orchestrate AI agent workflows using LangChain and LangGraph. • Contribute to the development of a multi-tenant simulation platform handling high volumes of concurrent AI-driven conversations in a public cloud environment. • Integrate with contact center providers (such as LivePerson) and external LLM providers through a unified gateway abstraction. • Build and extend REST APIs using the Litestar framework, following strong typing and Pydantic-based data modeling patterns. • Work with Couchbase for conversation state persistence, implementing optimistic concurrency patterns (CAS locking) for correctness in multi-pod deployments. • Write high-quality, well-tested code with a focus on behavior-driven unit and integration testing.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- 4+ years of software development experience
- Strong proficiency in Python, including async/await patterns, type annotations, and familiarity with the Python ecosystem (uv, ruff, mypy)
- 3+ years of experience building microservices, RESTful APIs, and production backend systems deployed to Kubernetes
- Experience with Couchbase, PostgreSQL, Firestore, or other NoSQL/document databases
- Familiarity with Kafka
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized, cloud-native deployments
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, including optimistic concurrency, idempotency, and stateless service design
- Solid understanding of data structures, algorithm design, and object-oriented principles
- Experience with Git and modern CI/CD workflows (GitLab CI preferred)
- Analytical and problem-solving skills with a customer-centric mindset
- Advocating and executing on automated testing strategies across all developed code.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance: Comprehensive plans to support your health needs.
- Wellness Resources: Access to wellbeing resources and programs including our EAP plan.
- Health & Mental Support: Access a confidential and free Employee Assistance Program (EAP), providing professional counseling.
- 401(k) Retirement Plan: To help you plan for your financial future by offering both the plan and a 4% employer match (100% match on the first 3% contribution and 50% match on the next 2% contribution)
- HSA & FSA Plans: To help you plan for health related expenses on a pre-tax basis.
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP): Participate and receive a discount on company shares, allowing you to directly share in LivePerson's success and growth.
- Additional Insurances: Basic and supplemental life insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance coverage, legal plan, identity theft protection plan, and critical illness supplemental insurance.
- Development: Access to internal professional development resources.
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): Discretionary PTO package for flexible days off with manager approval.
- Paid Public Holidays.
- Generous Parental Leave Policy: Including maternity/paternity support and fertility services.
- Remote-First Model: This role is fully remote (#LI-Remote), offering excellent work-life balance and flexibility. We also maintain dedicated WeWork space for those who wish to meet colleagues or collaborate in person.
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