About the role

You will work on core enterprise platform systems, focusing on services that ensure Synthesia is secure, reliable, and scalable for our largest customers.

You will contribute to our new suite of APIs that will unlock our market leading Avatar technology to be utilised by external creative tools.

We are an AI native company and use the most powerful assistant tools on a daily basis to increase our speed of development, automate repetitive tasks and widen the scope of what the team can worked on. This includes Claude and Cursor.

You will have ownership of projects that span months and multiple teams, requiring you to break down complex, ambiguous problems into clear steps that can be delivered and validated iteratively.

Engineers within Synthesia are empowered to contribute heavily to product discussions and build with both user and business considerations in mind. Impact is key to everything we do here.

You will work closely with product, security, legal, and infrastructure partners, and will be expected to translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable technical solutions.

You will evaluate your work through system health and reliability metrics, leveraging observability and monitoring to ensure systems meet performance, reliability, and compliance expectations.

You will consider the long-term direction of the platform, ensuring that the systems we build today can support future scale, enterprise requirements, and evolving regulatory needs.

What we're looking for:

• At least seven (7) years of experience as a software engineer, with experience operating at a senior or staff level.
• You have experience building and operating systems at scale, ideally within platform or enterprise-focused teams.
• Strong expertise in development and system design. Experience across the stack is a plus, our tech stack is Python, React & AWS.
• Relevant engineering experience for teams building enterprise-grade systems; this may include areas such as security, compliance, data handling, access control, multi-tenant systems, or platform services.
• Experience owning systems in production, including observability, incident response, and reliability improvements.
• Ability to work across teams and functions, aligning with stakeholders and driving technical initiatives end-to-end.
• Strong alignment with building reliable, scalable systems that support long-term product and business goals.
• Previous experience leading projects or mentoring other engineers is a plus.

The hiring process:

1. Tech Recruiter Interview (30-40min) - Technical background, previous experience, and what you're looking for
2. Delivery and Impact Interview (60min) - Deep dive into your past projects, impact, and ways of working
3. Technical Rounds:
   
   • Live Coding Interview (75min) - Hands-on problem solving (not Leetcode style); collaboration exercise with one of our engineers. AI-assisted coding welcome.
   • System Design Technical Discussion (60min) - Real architectural problems we've faced in production
   • Leadership Retrospective (45min) - Examples of collaboration and growth; your future manager or VP of Engineering will outline your role and what's ahead
4. Final debrief on our side which leads to an offer or the end of the process.

You can find more details on what to expect and how to prepare HERE. The process does not need to take long - we can be done in two weeks time.

Other important info:

• The salary starts at USD 200,000 base + stock option plan
• This is full-time employment only - no contractors possible - through our US entity
• Everyone at Synthesia gets 25 days of leave + local holidays (no extra paid or unpaid leave possible).