About the role:

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design and implement solutions that leverage a small team, across Research Engineering and Product Engineering at AssemblyAI. This person should have a demonstrated track record of developing longer term, adaptable solutions that span multiple teams, and require multiple engineers to implement (i.e. something larger than a single engineer can take on). The candidate must have a strong background in software engineering, and also have familiarity or experience with machine learning code and infrastructure.

What You’ll Do:

• Interface with other senior roles on other teams
• (e.g. Research, Research Engineering, Product Engineering, and Product)
• Collaborate with stakeholders on the designed solutions
• Mentor junior engineers by setting a strong example
• Design and implement new API features and endpoints
• Design and implement highly scalable AI experimentation frameworks
• Design and implement automated test suites and CI/CD pipelines
• Instrument systems with metrics, tracing, and logging
• Refactor applications to eliminate tech debt

Minimum Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience building backend applications using either JVM-based language (Java / Kotlin / Scala) OR 5+ years of experience in Python
• 2+ years professional experience in Python OR Java
• working knowledge of common cloud infra AWS/GCP
• 3+ years experience designing high-volume data processing pipelines

Preferred Requirements:

• 2+ years working in a monorepo with a powerful build system such as Bazel or Buck
• 1+ years defining, executing and landing a mid-term (2+ quarter) vision for a single project or team
• 2+ years designing production critical systems
• [A - TL] Experience setting roadmap direction with adjacent teams/systems
• 2+ years experience mentoring more junior engineers via design doc reviews and code reviews
• 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
• Experience scaling systems to new orders of magnitudes of traffic

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+