Senior Full Stack Engineer

Summary

Join Synthesia, a leading AI video generation platform, and contribute to our ambitious engineering projects. You will work end-to-end on our React and Python-based platform, owning projects from ideation to delivery and iteratively validating your work. Collaborate directly with product managers, focusing on commercial problem-solving and shaping product direction. Evaluate your impact on commercial objectives and contribute to the team's long-term strategic direction. This remote role requires at least seven years of software engineering experience, including three years at a senior/lead level, and a strong understanding of full-stack development. Synthesia offers a competitive salary, stock options, and 25 days of paid leave.

Requirements

• At least seven (7) years of experience as a software engineer, at least 3 on the senior/lead level
• Have experience in a high-performing engineering team that is operating at scale
• Have an ability to work across the stack, from implementing complex UI interactions to optimizing database queries
• Have deep knowledge in parts of the stack, whether it be client or server-side
• Have 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
• Have strong alignment with commercial success

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Have previous leadership experience of smaller teams

Benefits

• The salary starts at EUR/GDP/CHF 100.000 base + stock option plan
• 25 days of leave + local holidays
• Remote role from an EU country, UK or Switzerland