Senior/Staff/Principal Frontend Engineer, Synthesia
€100-115k
+ Stock options
AI video creation platform
Job no longer available
AI video creation platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
€100-115k
+ Stock options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to make video content - without cameras, microphones or studios.
Role
Who you are
- At least five years of experience as a software engineer
- You have experience in a high-performing engineering team that is operating at scale. This could come from a scale-up environment or a more established organization recognised for building and shipping with a great engineering culture
- An ability to work across the stack, from implementing complex UI interactions to optimizing database queries
- Deep knowledge in parts of the stack, whether it be client or server-side
- Relevant engineering experience for a team building an enterprise-grade SaaS product delivering AI-powered video generation; billing systems, experimentation platforms, video delivery systems, and so on
- Strong alignment with commercial success
What the job involves
- You will work end-to-end, contributing to our client application written in React and our monolithic backend written in Python, and managing the safe release of your features to our customer base
- You will have sole ownership of projects that span months, requiring you to have the ability to break a problem down into small steps that can be delivered and validated iteratively
- You will work directly with the product manager responsible for your project, meaning that you will be expected to ideate and focus on the commercial problem that you're solving, and you will have the opportunity to shape the direction of the product
- You will evaluate your own work, leveraging our data pipeline and frameworks that we have established to understand the impact your features have on our commercial objectives and pivoting where necessary
- You will consider the long-term direction of the team, making sure that we are developing the engineering capabilities that will allow us to stay ahead of the challenges we are likely to encounter in 6-12 months' time
Our take
Video is an integral part of companies’ marketing strategies, and the adoption of synthetic media has grown in popularity. As organisations are investing in videos, startups are building platforms to support the process. Synthesia is an AI-powered video generation platform that saves enterprises up to 100x the cost and time of producing a video.
The company leverages deep learning to simulate real videos and real actors without the need for costly infrastructure like camera crews, actors, cameras, studios, and a lengthy post-production process. Synthesia’s first product STUDIO launched in public beta in the summer of 2020 and it is now used by 30,000+ companies, including the BBC, Teleperformance, Amazon, and Reuters.
Notably, Prof. Matthias Niessner, one of the co-founders of the company, is behind some of the most well-recognised research projects in the field Deep Video Portraits and Face2Face. The company's intuitive interface has grown to become the #1 rated video creation platform, proving its strong ability to capitalise on the growing AI in media market – which is estimated to be worth $99.48 Billion by 2030.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2026
$200m
SERIES E
Apr 2025
$13.2m
LATE VC
Total funding: $550m
Company benefits
- 📍You will work in a hybrid setting with offices London, New York, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Munich & Zurich!
- 💸 Stock options in our fast-growing Series C start-up
- 🌴 25 days of annual leave + public holidays in the country where you are based
- 🎉 Fun culture with regular socials and company retreats (Portugal, Copenhagen & Barcelona!)
- 🍫 Office snacks and regular tasty lunches!
- 🤑 Generous referral scheme
- 🚀 A huge opportunity for career growth as you’ll help shape a market-defining product
- 🏥 Private Medical Insurance (Medical History Disregarded basis) including mental health support, dental & vision, cashback and gym discounts.
- 🍼 Paid parental leave entitling primary caregivers to 16 weeks of full pay, and secondary 5 weeks of full pay.
- 🧓 Pension contribution/salary sacrifice 🇬🇧
- 🚲 Cycle to work scheme (London) 🇬🇧
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Leadership
Victor Riparbelli
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience working on growth and product at Aller Media and Founders. Co-founded Immersive Futures in 2016 and Coincall in 2017.
Steffen Tjerrild
(Co-Founder & COO)Former Investment Manager at Kukula Capital and Business Developer at Founders.
Matthias Niessner
(Co-Founder)Computer science professor at the Technical University Munich.
Lourdes Agapito
(Co-Founder)Professor of 3D Computer Vision at University College London.
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