Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead
About AssemblyAI
At AssemblyAI, we’re creating a leading Applied AI company by building powerful models to transcribe and understand audio data, exposed through a straightforward web API.
Progress in AI is moving at an unprecedented pace–we keep our pulse on the latest developments and breakthroughs in AI research and use these advances to inform our production-ready AI models. Our Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) models already outperform companies like Google, AWS, and Microsoft - which is why hundreds of companies and thousands of developers are using our API to transcribe and understand millions of videos, podcasts, phone calls, and Zoom meetings every day.
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. As part of a huge and emerging market, AssemblyAI is well on its way to becoming the leader in applied AI.
Join our world-class, remote team and help us build an iconic AI company!
About the role:
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead to organize/manage technical projects and set strategic direction within the technology organization. This is a cross-functional role that requires leadership, communication and collaboration across the technology organization.
What You’ll Do:
- Guide the technical direction for a small team (3-5) engineers
- Interface with other senior roles on other teams (e.g. Research, Research Engineering, Product Engineering, Product)
- Spend about 50% of your time working as an IC (designs, implementation)
- Collaborate with stakeholders on the designed solutions
- Help your manager grow the team through hiring and mentoring more junior engineers
- Drive alignment among adjacent teams and projects
- Project management, time management, and prioritizing work across the team
- Technical product management, breaking down projects into milestones, and managing the scope
Minimum Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional experience building backend applications using JVM-based language (Java / Kotlin / Scala)
- 3+ years of experience leading technical projects
- 2+ years of professional experience using Python
- 2+ years working in a monorepo with a powerful build system such as Bazel or Buck
- 2+ years of experience scaling systems to new orders of magnitudes of traffic
- 2+ years experience mentoring more junior engineers via design doc reviews and code reviews
Preferred Requirements:
- 5+ years of working with SQL and NoSQL databases
- 2+ years working in a monorepo with a powerful build system such as Bazel or Buck
- 2+ years using monitoring, alerting, logging systems (eg Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, ELK/Kibana)
- 2+ years designing continuous integration and delivery pipelines
- 2+ years of experience using task tracking systems such as Jira
- 2+ years of experience scaling systems to new orders of magnitudes of traffic
- 2+ years designing production critical systems
- 2+ years experience mentoring more junior engineers via design doc reviews and code reviews
- 1+ years defining, executing and landing a mid-term (2+ quarter) vision for a single project or team
Pay Transparency:
AssemblyAI strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size, stage and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide.
There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.
Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.
Salary range: $170k-$230k+
Working at AssemblyAI
We are a small but mighty group of problem solvers, innovators, 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 self-motivated. We put a lot of trust and autonomy into everyone on our team and want to find people who will add to our culture, not just fit in.
We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of 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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