Software Engineer, Back End - Video Generation (Tech Lead Level)

This role sits within our Video Platform team building out and maintaining critical infrastructure powering Synthesia's video generation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• 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.

• 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.