Software Engineer - Developer Foundations

About AssemblyAI

At AssemblyAI, we’re building at the forefront of Speech AI, creating powerful models for speech-to-text and speech understanding available through a straightforward API. With more than 200,000 developers building on our API and over 5,000 paying customers, AssemblyAI is helping unlock and support the next generation of powerful, meaningful products built with AI. 

Progress in AI is moving at an unprecedented pace– and our team is made up of experts in AI research that are focused on making sure that our customers are able to stay on the cutting edge, with production-ready AI models that are constantly updating and improving as our team continues to improve accuracy, latency, and what’s possible with Speech AI. Our models consistently rank highest in industry benchmarks for accuracy, outperforming models from Google and Amazon, and up to 30% fewer hallucinations than OpenAI’s Whisper. Our models power more than 2 billion end-user experiences each day, helping companies better understand customer feedback, run more productive meetings with automated meeting notes, and helping improve childhood literacy via ed tech tools. 

We’ve raised funding by leading investors including Accel, Insight Partners, Y Combinator’s AI Fund, Patrick and John Collision, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross. We’re a remote team looking to build one of the next great AI companies, and are looking for driven, talented people to help us get there!

The Role

We're looking for a backend engineer with strong software and cloud engineering skills. You'll help us build highly scalable developer-centric tooling and backend systems supporting state-of-the-art ML models. Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Build automated test suites and CI/CD pipelines
• Build highly scalable event-driven and realtime systems
• Build libraries for internal teams
• Instrument systems with metrics, tracing, and logging
• Refactor applications to eliminate tech debt

You'll love this job if you....

• Enjoy taking ownership and solving complex technical problems, even when there is no perfect solution.
• Enjoy being in a fast-paced, customer-facing role.
• You're excited to take initiative and tackle big technical challenges like building highly scalable architectures and achieving zero-downtime deployments.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience building backend applications using Go or Python
• 2+ years of experience with OOP design patterns, reliability and scaling
• Experience with cloud providers such as GCP or AWS
• Has worked at a startup or high growth company

Skills

• Inquisitive. You’re always in search for both novel and effective solutions even when within highly constrained time and resources.
• Fast learner. Ramping up on difficult topics is a trivial task for you.
• Good sense of code structuring. You strive for making your code speak for itself and be readable by other humans.
• Proactive self starter. Driven to accomplish tasks, while acknowledging the value of seeking help when faced with a challenge.
• Collaborative. Recognizes that development is a team effort and knows when to ask for help, lean in and work with others to get the job done. 

Nice to Have

• Experience building and maintaining cicd deployment pipelines
• Experience developing REST APIs in frameworks like Django, Flask, Tornado, Fiber or FastAPI
• Experience with Bazel and monorepos

US Salary Range: $170,000 - $190,000 per year 

Remote Locations: North America - Eastern Timezone, Germany, Canada - Eastern Timezone, Switzerland and UK

Working at AssemblyAI

We are a small but mighty group of startup veterans and experienced AI researchers with over 20 years of expertise in Machine Learning, Speech Recognition, and NLP. As a fully remote team, we’re looking for people to join our team who are ambitious, curious, and lead with integrity. We’re still in the early days of AI and of AssemblyAI’s journey, and are looking for teammates who won’t just fit in, but will help us define and build our company culture. 

We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. No matter your race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply!

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