Staff/Lead Engineer, back end - Video Generation job opportunity at Synthesia.

Bachelor's (B.Sc.)

Europe, Switzerland

Europe....Switzerland

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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. __ What we're looking for: At least seven (7) years of experience as a software engineer, at least 2 on the lead level. You have experience in a high-performing engineering team that is operating at scale. This could come from a scale-up environment or a more established organisation recognised for building and shipping with a great engineering culture. An ability to work across the stack, with deep knowledge on server side and all things back end related. BE only experience is OK if you are happy to occasionally help out with FE. We used Python on our Backend and React on our Frontend 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. __ Why join us? We’re living the golden age of #AI. The next decade will yield the next iconic companies, and we dare to say we have what it takes to become one. Here’s why, __ Our culture At Synthesia we’re passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising. We strive to hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions. Our work principles serve as our charter for how we make decisions, give feedback and structure our work to empower everyone to go as fast as possible. You can find out more about these principles here. Serving 50,000+ customers (and 50% of the Fortune 500) We’re trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald’s and more. Read stories from happy customers and what 1,200+ people say on G2 . __ Other important info: This is a remote role from an EU country, UK or Switzerland. The salary starts at EUR/GBP/CHF 100.000 base + stock option plan. This is full-time employment only - no contractors possible - usually through OysterHR. Everyone at Synthesia gets 25 days of leave + local holidays We only sponsor VISA if you are in the UK/EU country already and need support - we do not relocate people.