Staff Software Engineer, Voices

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Contribute to the core systems that drive Synthesia’s script preview and voice generation functionalities.

• Develop and manage backend services that coordinate various text-to-speech (TTS) providers.

• Maintain provider reliability, oversee request routing, and ensure output consistency.

• Address user-facing product challenges from a backend viewpoint.

• Take ownership of projects that integrate multiple systems and domains.

• Assess work performance through system metrics and user experience evaluations.

• Collaborate effectively with product, frontend, and R&D teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Multiple years of experience in developing and managing backend systems in a production environment.

• A strong backend engineer with a background in designing dependable, observable services.

• A product-oriented mindset focused on addressing user-facing challenges.

• Comfortable engaging closely with clients.

• Open to stepping beyond comfort zones, including frontend coding tasks.

• Thrives in an iterative, experiment-driven setting.

• Experience with observability tools is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• 25 days of leave plus local holidays.

• Stock option plan.