Synthesia · 1 month ago
Software Engineer, Back End - Video Generation (Tech Lead Level)
Synthesia is on a mission to make video easy for everyone, leveraging AI to transform content creation. The role involves leading the Video Platform team to enhance the infrastructure that supports video generation, focusing on resilience, scalability, and comprehensive monitoring tools.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Content CreatorsFoundational AIGenerative AISoftwareVideoVideo Editing
Responsibilities
This role sits within our Video Platform team building out and maintaining critical infrastructure powering Synthesia's video generation capabilities
You will focus on improving the resilience and scalability of our video generation pipeline
You will build comprehensive monitoring and debugging tools for the video pipeline
You will have sole ownership of projects that span months, requiring you to have the ability to break a problem down into small steps that can be delivered and validated iteratively
You will evaluate your own work, leveraging our data pipeline and frameworks that we have established to understand the impact your features have on our commercial objectives and pivoting where necessary
You will consider the long-term direction of the team, making sure that we are developing the engineering capabilities that will allow us to stay ahead of the challenges we are likely to encounter in 6-12 months' time
Qualification
Required
At least seven (7) years of experience as a software engineer, at least 2 on the lead level
Experience in a high-performing engineering team that is operating at scale
Ability to work across the stack, with deep knowledge on server side and all things back end related
Strong AWS experience
Platform engineering experience with a proven track record of building internal platforms used by multiple teams
Strong alignment with commercial success
Previous leadership experience of smaller teams
Benefits
Stock option plan
25 days of leave + local holidays
Company
Synthesia
Synthesia is an AI video platform that enables users to create videos from text using advanced AI avatars and voiceovers.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$536.6MKey Investors
Google VenturesAdobe VenturesNew Enterprise Associates
2025-10-29Series Unknown· $200M
2025-04-08Series Unknown
2025-01-15Series D· $180M
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