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Synthesia · 1 month ago

Software Engineer, Back End Leaning (Tech Lead Level)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$100K/yr - $100K/yr

7+ years exp

Synthesia is on a mission to make video easy for everyone, simplifying the video production process with their AI video communications platform. The Software Engineer, Back End Leaning (Tech Lead Level) will work end-to-end on client applications and manage feature releases while owning projects and collaborating with product management to address commercial challenges.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Content CreatorsGenerative AISoftwareVideoVideo Editing

No H1B

Responsibilities

You will work end-to-end, contributing to our client application written in React and our monolithic backend written in Python, and managing the safe release of your features to our customer base

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 work directly with the product manager responsible for your project, meaning that you will be expected to ideate and focus on the commercial problem that you're solving, and you will have the opportunity to shape the direction of the product

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

PythonReactSaaS product developmentAI-powered video generationTeam leadershipCommercial alignmentProblem-solvingCollaboration

Required

At least seven (7) years of experience as a software engineer, at least 3 on the senior/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

Relevant engineering experience for a team building an enterprise-grade SaaS product delivering AI-powered video generation; billing systems, experimentation platforms, video delivery systems, online editors, real-time collaboration and so on

Strong alignment with commercial success