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Staff Backend Engineer, Voices
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Backend Engineer, Voices
Synthesia
• Work on the core speech and voice generation experience at Synthesia. • Design and deliver features across script preview and voice orchestration stack. • Integrate with multiple Text-to-Speech (TTS) providers, building recommendation systems. • Take ownership of features from idea through to production with loosely defined requirements. • Collaborate with product, design, and AI teams to translate user problems into experiments and features. • Ship features behind flags, measure outcomes, and refine based on signals.
Job Requirements
- Experience building and shipping product features end-to-end in production environments.
- Strong product mindset, able to take ambiguous problems and iteratively solve them.
- Comfortable working in 0 to 1 environments, experimenting and prototyping quickly.
- Evaluate technical feasibility, making pragmatic trade-offs, especially with external systems.
- Care about reliability and user experience, aiming for consistent solutions in real-world usage.
- Confidence in collaboration with product and design, including effective pushbacks.
- Willingness to debug and work across the stack.
Benefits
- 25 days of leave + local holidays
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