Senior Backend Software Engineer, Tavus
$160-250k
+ Equity
AI video cloning platform
Be an early applicant
AI video cloning platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-250k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To allow companies to maintain important personal connections with their future customers and partners, all while saving time, effort, and costs.
Role
Who you are
- You're a scrappy backend generalist who can hop between Python and Typescript fluently
- You thrive in an ambiguous and fast changing space. The state of the art changes on a dime and you react with it
- You bring a senior mindset: you set direction, own decisions, and gets things over the finish line
- You have incredibly communication skills and can communicate complex technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical team members
Desirable
- Experience with React and fullstack web development
- Experience with video streaming or WebRTC
- Experience working with LLMs
- Broad knowledge of generative AI models
What the job involves
- We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to be a technical driver across teams. You're the glue that makes discrete teams feel like one continuous team. You'll tackle ambiguous problems across our range of backend and partner closely with the frontend and conversational video interface team
- Work across the backend to ship rock solid features that both self-serve and enterprise customers will use (ex: Updates to our Billing system, new account management systems, endpoint perf optimization)
- Work with the Conversational Video Interface and the Frontend Platform team to get SoTA models into users' hands
- Drive architectural decisions across the stack
Our take
Tavus is an AI video cloning tool that uses synthetic media, more popularly known as ‘deepfakes’, for companies to produce customizable and scalable content. The platform enables businesses to create videos for marketing, outreach, sales, recruiting and more while tailoring them to specific individuals.
Other players in the field include Loom and Vidyard, both of which have proven the value of personalised videos for businesses, but whose services take time. Tavus is scalable as its platform can generate thousands of personalised videos in the time it would take to record just one. The videos generated currently come with imperfections, notably the lip-syncing and video-cloning, which Tavus tenuously claims create more engaging content.
Synthetic media was called upon heavily during the pandemic, as companies created AI-copilots that could host conferences and pitches remotely, so it will be interesting to see how this industry continues to grow as time goes on. Tavus is young, but is expanding quickly with new products like its Phoenix-3 and Raven-0 models, having been backed by Sequoia and Y Combinator, amongst other top firms. Off the back of 2024 Series A funding, it has the means to accelerate development and growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2024
$18m
SERIES A
Mar 2023
$6.1m
SEED
Total funding: $24.1m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their families, with 100% of monthly premiums paid by Tavus
- Unlimited paid time off, as well as parental and pawental leave
- Flexible hours
- Remote-friendly, with teams at home or in co-working spaces across the globe
- Frequent in person meet ups
- Generous gear stipend
- Company retreats
- Yearly stipend for you to spend on any learning materials (i.e. newsletters, online courses, etc.)
- Debate and feedback are cornerstones of our culture
- Progressive, open-minded meritocracy
- Team members from diverse backgrounds – we’re looking for culture creators, not culture fits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Hassaan Raza
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Accantus. Served as Engineering Project Manager for Apple and Technical Program Manager for Google before spending 6 years at Simublade as Senior Product Manager and later as Director of Product Development.
Quinn Favret
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously co-founded Chime Menu before starting Tavus.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 11 more jobs at Tavus