Senior Full Stack Engineer, Synthesia
€100-115k
Listed salary applies to EUR/GBP/CHF. Plus stock option plan
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AI video creation platform
Open for applications
AI video creation platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
€100-115k
Listed salary applies to EUR/GBP/CHF. Plus stock option plan
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to make video content - without cameras, microphones or studios.
Role
Who you are
- At least seven (7) years of experience as a software engineer, at least 3 on the senior/lead level
- 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, online editors, real-time collaboration and so on
- Strong alignment with commercial success
- Previous leadership experience of smaller teams is a plus
What the job involves
- In engineering, we are working on a variety of ambitious projects that are critical to our mission. These range from hyper-personalized onboarding, which aims to introduce new customers to Synthesia through a low-latency, highly personalised experience, to creating our own video delivery platform
- This platform, in addition to addressing typical concerns such as video transcoding and tiered storage, will allow us to offer proprietary media formats to our customers, including nonlinear and translatable video
- 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
Application process
- 30min call with our technical recruiter
- 30min call with engineers about your past
- Take-home assignment (no alternative is offered) - does not have a deadline and it is syntax agnostic
- 60min technical discussion
- 30min call with leadership
- The process does not need to take long - we can be done in seven working days
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.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
40% female employees
139% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Ownership is key to how everyone works at Synthesia. Over the past 18 months since joining, I have been given ownership of a vast array of exciting..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2023
$90m
SERIES C
Dec 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $156.5m
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 values
- Outcomes over Inputs & Plans: We value outcomes and iterations, not inputs
- Be an Owner: Acting like an owner is encouraged: Ask questions, challenge decisions and show leadership
- Make the Journey Fun: We strive for an informal, low hierarchy culture where we can all be our true selves.
- Default to Simple: Simple is better - until it's not. But in most cases we can stick to very simple solutions
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Victor Riparbelli
(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 & CFO)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.
People progressing
Joined Synthesia in June 2022 as a Customer Support Associate, promoted to a different department as a Customer Onboarding Manager in January 2024.
Joined Synthesia in April 2022 as an SDR. Promoted in January 2023 to a Senior SDR, and promoted again in January 2024 to a Strategic SDR lead for EMEA.
Joined Synthesia in April 2023, promoted to a different department as a Customer Success Manager in May 2024.
Joined Synthesia in October 2021 as a Customer Success Manager, promoted to a different department as an Account Executive in October 2022.
Joined Synthesia in December 2021 as a Customer Success Manager, promoted to a Senior Customer Success Manager in December 2022.
Joined Synthesia in December 2020 as a Full Stack Engineer, promoted to an Engineering Lead in December 2022.
Joined Synthesia in January 2018 as a Research Engineer, promoted to a Senior Research Engineer in March 2021.
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