Engineering Lead, WellSaid Labs
$175-195k
+ Stock options
AI text-to-speech technology
Job no longer available
AI text-to-speech technology
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$175-195k
+ Stock options
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone with AI voice.
Role
Who you are
- You are a senior-level full-stack engineer lead with a passion for building scalable and user-friendly web applications
- You have experience in developing both front-end and back-end features using modern technologies and frameworks
- You are highly proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Node.js
- You’ve used React as a front-end framework, databases and cloud services and it delights you to create elegant user interfaces
- You have a history of providing leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence
- You are comfortable working in an agile environment and collaborating with other engineers, designers, and product managers
- You are eager to learn new skills and technologies and share your knowledge and mentor more junior engineers
- You have a strong sense of ownership and responsibility for your work and strive to deliver high-quality code that meets the needs of the users and the business
- To thrive in this role, you ideally have several years’ experience with React (alternatively, Angular, Vue, or similar), Typescript (alternatively, Java, C#, or similar), and HTML/CSS
- You have an understanding of software design principles such as DRY, SoC, Dependency Injection, etc
- 2+ years of experience as an engineering team lead
- 10+ years of full-stack development experience
- Experience with our tech stack which includes: NextJS, Node, GraphQL, PostgresSQL, Docker, Google Kubernetes Engine, Relational databases
- Experience with cross-team collaboration
- Give attention to creating modular, secure, and well-tested code
- Experience building and shipping end-to-end features to a sizable user base
- Working knowledge of computer science fundamentals like data structures and algorithms
- Ability to self-direct the planning and scoping for a project
- Strong communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
- Experience with accessibility, security, and compliance standards (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR) is a plus
- Experience building a platform for an AI/ML model is a plus
- Be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
- Pass a pre-employment background check
What the job involves
- We have developed a breakthrough AI algorithm that creates synthetic, realistic speech from text
- You will help develop the creative studio powered by this algorithm, enabling creatives to make lifelike voice over for videos, audiobooks, and training programs
- As the leader of the engineering team responsible for building WellSaid Labs’ enterprise-grade SaaS application, Studio, you will work closely with our product and engineering teams to instill best practices, execute the product roadmap bringing customer solutions to life, mentor our teammates, and participate in the sprint process as an advocate for fixing bugs, right-sizing technical work, and addressing technical debt
- The projects you'll undertake are geared toward bringing improvements and new functionality to the WellSaid Labs Studio
- Working directly with our product team, you'll be tasked with developing features that have high impact and visibility in our customers' daily interactions with Studio as well as help WellSaid Labs improve and create a world-class software solution for creative teams
- In this role, you’ll develop:
- A collaborative user interface for generating audio
- The next version of our editor
- Our avatar marketplace
- A streamlined custom onboarding experience
- An improved user experience for larger teams to collaborate together to create human-parity audio
- Find opportunities to mature our engineering processes
- Build complex features to completion
- Lead a feature team with technical expertise
- Build an accessible and inclusive user experience
- Collaboratively make technical decisions that are inline with the future architectural vision
- Participate in cross-team collaboration to solve technical challenges
- Provide technical guidance for software development by the Studio software team
- Tackle challenges creatively and critically evaluate your work
- Help interview and recruit more talented engineers to WellSaid Labs!
Application process
- An ‘intro’ call with our recruiting team (25-30 minutes)
- A technical screen via Byteboard
- An interview with the hiring manager (50 minutes); if there’s a match we’ll schedule an interview loop with the team
- An Interview loop with 3-4 interviews (1 hour each) with the team members you will be potentially working with
- All interviews will be remote via Google Meets
Our take
WellSaid Labs offers creative teams a real time text-to-speech engine that leverages AI to produce natural-sounding voice overs and clips, all based on the voices of real people.
The most common rebuttal to this kind of technology is how it can be used with malicious intent – deepfakes being the most pertinent concern. This is precisely why WellSaid Labs has no current intention to bring its product to a consumer market – a wise decision. It’s also worth noting that all its voice samples are provided with consent of the original talent.
Provided the pricing point is right, there’s an obvious attraction to being able to quickly create audio content at an enterprise level. And the fact that the startups first major funding round was oversubscribed indicates that investors see this attraction too. It'll be an interesting company to keep an eye on in coming years.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
67% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2021
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $10m
Company HQ
Northlake, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Michael Petrochuk
(Founder & CTO)Previously founded AI fashion advice app Wardrobe.Tips and location based social network Chirpp. Former Developer and Engineer at vCita and Stylize, also interning at Google and Uber.
Brian Cook
(CEO)Founder of Incredible Capital. Previously co-founded and served as the CEO at Hyperfish, Nintex, and OBS.
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