Senior Full Stack Engineer

Summary

Join Synthesia, a leading AI video generation platform, and contribute to our innovative projects. As a Software Engineer, you will work end-to-end on our React client application and Python backend, ensuring safe feature releases. You will independently manage projects, breaking down problems into manageable steps and iteratively validating results. Collaborate directly with product managers to focus on commercial problem-solving and shape product direction. Evaluate your work's impact on commercial objectives using our data pipeline and frameworks. Consider the team's long-term direction, developing engineering capabilities to meet future challenges. This remote role offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

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. This could come from a scale-up environment or a more established organization recognised for building and shipping with a great engineering culture
• 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

Previous leadership experience of smaller teams is a plus

Benefits

• 25 days of leave + local holidays
• Salary starts at EUR/GDP/CHF 100.000 base + stock option plan