Senior Python Engineer, Backend (Remote)

AssemblyAI () is the #1 rated API for Speech Recognition. Thousands of developers use our APIs to transcribe millions of videos, podcasts, p...

AssemblyAI () is the #1 rated API for Speech Recognition. Thousands of developers use our APIs to transcribe millions of videos, podcasts, phone calls, and zoom meetings every day - powering innovative products like visual voicemail, meeting summarizers, and closed captioning.

We're backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, John and Patrick Collison of Stripe, Daniel Gross, and Nat Friedman. We were founded in 2017.

Responsibilities

We're looking for a senior backend engineer with strong software and cloud engineering skills. You'll help us build highly scalable developer-centric APIs powered by state-of-the-art ML models. Some of your responsibilities will include

• Build new API features and endpoints
• Build automated test suites and CI/CD pipelines
• Integrate and deploy state of the art machine learning models into production
• Build new batch and streaming applications
• Refactor applications to eliminate tech debt
• Troubleshoot production issues
• Participate in the team on-call rotation

• Enjoy solving complex technical problems, even when there is no perfect solution.
• Enjoy being in a fast paced, customer-facing role.
• Thrive in small, cross-functional teams. We like to wear many hats here!
• You're excited to tackle big technical challenges like fast scaling of ML models and achieving zero-downtime deploys.

• 7+ years of engineering backend applications using any popular language such as python, java, c#, javascript, go, c/c++
• 5+ years of working with sql and no-sql databases
• 2+ working with python backend frameworks like django, flask, or tornado
• 2+ years developing rest APIs
• 2+ years working with common AWS services
• 2+ years of production support experience

• Competitive salary + equity
• Platinum healthcare (100% covered)
• Dental care
• Unlimited PTO
• Equity
• 100% remote team
• 2-3 in-person annual team retreats
• $1k budget for home office equipment