Posted at: 14 November

Software Engineer - Developer Foundations

Company

AssemblyAI

AssemblyAI is a Speech AI company that develops models to transcribe and understand human speech, offering services such as speech-to-text, sentiment analysis, and PII redaction.

Remote Hiring Policy:

AssemblyAI has a flexible remote work policy. The company hires remotely from the United States and Europe.

Job Type

Full-time

Allowed Applicant Locations

United States, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Salary

$170,000 to $190,000 per year

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Job Description

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

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