Software Engineer, front end

Summary

Join Synthesia, a rapidly growing AI video communications company, and contribute to our client application (React) and backend (Python). You will own projects, work with product managers, evaluate your work's impact, and contribute to the team's long-term direction. This role requires at least seven years of software engineering experience, including three years at a senior/lead level, experience in a high-performing engineering team, and the ability to work across the stack. Strong alignment with commercial success is essential. The position is remote, based in an EU country, UK, or Switzerland, and 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
• 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 organization recognised for building and shipping with a great engineering culture
• An ability to work across the stack, with deep knowledge on client side, experience in implementing complex UI interactions is ideal
• FE only experience is OK if you are happy to occasionally help out with BE
• 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

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/GBP/CHF 100.000 base + stock option plan