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title: 'Backend Engineer (Developer Platform)- Singapore at Plaud'
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# Backend Engineer (Developer Platform)- Singapore at Plaud

- **Company:** [Plaud](https://feeny.ai/companies/plaud)
- **Location:** Singapore
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Plaud/0df212b5-444e-4fd1-beb2-51e8325a1206/application

**Skills:** Backend engineering, Platform development, API development, OAuth 2.0, Authentication, Authorization, API design, Developer-facing tooling

> Join Plaud as an entry-level Full Stack Engineer to contribute to the design and implementation of core backend and platform capabilities for the Developer Platform. You will build standardized APIs and SDKs while collaborating with product and AI teams to enhance developer experience.

## Job description

About Plaud Inc. Plaud is building the real-world AI interface for professionals to amplify intelligence, elevate productivity and performance, loved by over 2,500,000 users worldwide since 2023. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud captures, structures, and compounds the intelligence generated in conversations — so humans can think better, decide faster, and execute with clarity.

Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company pushing the boundary of human–AI intelligence through a hardware–software combination. With full ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2, GDPR, EN18031, and HIPAA compliances, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection.

To learn more about Plaud, please visit https://www.plaud.ai and follow along on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/plaud_official/), [X](https://twitter.com/PLAUDAI), [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/plaudai), [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/plaudai/?viewAsMember=true), and [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@PLAUDAI)

## Why You Should Join Us

Plaud is building the next generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize intelligence from what people say, hear, see, and think.

- Plaud is a bootstrapped, skyrocketing, profitable company with a $300M revenue run rate achieved in just three years.
- Define the next-gen paradigm for human-AI interaction.
- Gain exposure to cutting-edge AI for Pro tools and play a direct role in our global expansion.
- Work with passionate teammates who value innovation, collaboration, and customer success.
- Grow your career in a culture that champions continuous learning and fast career development.
- Market-competitive compensation, global exposure, and a vibrant, creativity-fueled work atmosphere.

## What You Will Do

- Drive features end-to-end with guidance: contribute to requirement scoping, implement the backend against an agreed API contract and data model, ship it, and maintain monitoring, logging and dashboards for the services you work on. This is a backend-primary role — when a feature requires a developer console page, you are expected to ship a functional UI with AI assistance. Strong frontend skills are not required
- Build and operate backend services for the Plaud Developer Platform: developer-facing REST APIs (e.g. ASR / TTS, file upload and asynchronous job processing), webhooks, API-key and token authentication, organization and role models, usage metering, rate limiting and billing.
- Build and maintain the developer surface: server SDKs, API reference and guides, sample code, onboarding flows in the Developer Console, and developer tooling such as the CLI and MCP server.
- Contribute to making the platform production-grade: multi-tenant isolation, idempotency and retry semantics, backward-compatible API versioning, and security and compliance requirements (SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA) — working closely with senior engineers on architecture and cross-cutting decisions.
- Work AI-natively: use coding agents (Claude Code, Codex) every day for planning, implementation, tests, debugging and code review; build and share team skills and context files; keep critical judgment over AI-generated code on edge cases, security and performance.
- Collaborate with the device, voice AI, consumer-app and SRE teams to deliver cross-system features, and occasionally join customer calls to understand integration needs. This is a product-engineering role, not a forward-deployed or solutions-engineering role.

## What We Look For

- 3–5 years of backend engineering experience, ideally on platforms, public APIs or developer-facing products, with at least one service you contributed to designing, shipping and operating in production.
- Strong in Go or Python (our backend is Go and Python). You do not need to be a frontend engineer, but you can build and maintain a simple web page with AI assistance when your feature needs one.
- Solid fundamentals: API design, relational data modelling, caching, message queues, asynchronous / background processing, authentication and authorization basics, and observability.
- Hands-on delivery experience: CI/CD, deployment, monitoring and alerting, and on-call exposure for services you have worked on. You have a working understanding of your service's QPS, latency and resource footprint.
- Hands-on, daily use of AI coding agents in real work — not just autocomplete: planning → implementing → testing → reviewing with agents, writing your own skills or context files, and concrete examples of where you caught the agent being wrong.
- Able to work independently on well-scoped problems: given a clear problem statement and API contract, you can drive implementation to production with minimal guidance — and flag ambiguity early rather than block.
- Clear communication across time zones (Singapore / Beijing / Silicon Valley). You are comfortable working asynchronously with distributed teams and can communicate technical decisions clearly in writing and in meetings.

## Nice to Have

- Multi-tenant SaaS, billing / metering, or API gateway experience
- Experience building MCP servers, CLIs or other agent-facing tooling
- Experience with voice AI (ASR / TTS / real-time audio) or hardware / IoT device backends
- Multi-region deployments and data-residency compliance (EU / APAC / CN)

## What we offer

- Meaningful Ownership An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) that gives a real stake in Plaud’s long-term success.
- High-Impact Environment Work in a fast-moving, product-driven environment where your ideas directly shape the future of AI productivity.
- Cutting-Edge AI Tools for Productivity Access to best-in-class AI tools, including Gemini, Claude Code, and other frontier AI systems to maximize engineering and execution efficiency.
- Best-in-Class Equipment Choice of top-spec laptops, high-performance workstation setups, and cutting-edge Plaud devices for all new hires.
- Team & Culture Annual company offsites, team events, and a culture that values craftsmanship, ownership, and velocity.
- Medical & Insurance Coverage Comprehensive benefits to protect our employees' financial security, physical health, and longterm growth. Medical insurance and WICA coverage for all full-time employees.

## About Plaud

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Plaud builds an AI-powered hardware and software note-taking platform that automatically records, transcribes, and summarizes conversations to help professionals stay present and productive.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed on the website or in standard search results

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: AI-powered productivity software and consumer hardware
- Target customers: B2C (professionals, knowledge workers, medical practitioners) and B2B (teams and enterprises)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Amplify human intelligence" – building the next-generation intelligence infrastructure to capture, extract, and utilize what you say, hear, see, and think.

## Products & Services
- **Plaud Note (Hardware)**: An AI note-taking device that records conversations and uses AI to generate transcripts, summaries, action items, and key points. Award-winning hardware design.
- **Plaud App (Software)**: Companion app for transcription (112 languages), AI-powered summaries ("Plaud Intelligence"), search ("Ask Plaud"), and export/sharing/integration. Available on mobile and web.
- **Plaud Cloud**: Encrypted private cloud sync for cross-device access, with user-controlled data storage (on-device or cloud).
- **Subscription Plans**: Free tier (1,200 mins/mo transcription), Pro Plan ($99.99/year), Unlimited Plan ($239.99/year – unlimited transcription).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Over 2,000,000 users worldwide since 2023 (as of mid-2026); used in over 170 countries
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed. Featured in major media outlets (unspecified on site).
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid user growth to 2M+ in ~3 years; expansion from a single product to a suite with multiple subscription tiers; global office presence (San Francisco, Singapore, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Seattle, Beijing); compliance with ISO27001, ISO27701, GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, and EN 18031 – signaling enterprise readiness and expansion.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hardware-Software Integration**: A dedicated hardware device for note-taking (unlike pure software competitors like Otter.ai or Fireflies.ai), enabling frictionless, ambient capture.
- **Privacy-First Architecture**: Data is never sold or used to train AI models; encryption in transit and at rest; user controls what syncs; multiple global security certifications (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO).
- **Multilingual & Multimodal**: Transcribes in 112 languages and supports multimodal input (voice, potentially more).
- **Strong Mission & Brand**: Positioned as "World's No.1 AI Note-taking Brand" with a clear philosophy around "Conversation as Intelligence."

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the user base**: Targeting 50 million professionals by 2030.
- **Enterprise & Healthcare Expansion**: HIPAA compliance and healthcare-specific messaging ("complete charts instantly") indicate a push into medical and enterprise verticals.
- **Global Office Build-out**: Establishing engineering, product, and go-to-market teams across US, Asia, and Europe.
- **Product Depth**: Moving beyond transcription to become an "intelligence infrastructure" that captures, extracts, and utilizes all forms of human communication.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: The company's philosophy ("Amplify Human Intelligence") is central to its culture, and employees are likely working on a product that directly impacts how millions of professionals work.
- **Growth Stage**: Rapidly scaling from 2M to a target of 50M users, offering significant career growth opportunities.
- **Global & Remote-Friendly**: Offices in San Francisco, Singapore, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Seattle, and Beijing – suggests a distributed, cross-cultural work environment.
- **Cutting-Edge Tech**: Working on the frontier of AI (LLMs, speech recognition, hardware-software integration) with a "Pursue SOTA" (State of the Art) value.
- **Values-Driven Culture**: Listed values include "Human First," "Act from first principles," "Dare to change," "Use AI to its fullest," and "Let others thrive."
- **Perks**: One-year warranty on hardware, lifetime customer support, and a focus on data security (ISO/SOC/HIPAA compliance) indicates a mature engineering and operations culture.

## Sources
1. [Plaud.ai - Homepage](https://www.plaud.ai/)
2. [Plaud.ai - About Us](https://www.plaud.ai/pages/about-us)
3. [Plaud.ai - Our Story](https://www.plaud.ai/pages/our-story)
4. [Plaud - Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Plaud)

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