Software Engineer - Fullstack/Frontend
About AssemblyAI
At AssemblyAI, we’re creating a leading Applied AI company by building powerful models to transcribe and understand audio data, exposed through a straightforward web API.
Progress in AI is moving at an unprecedented pace–we keep our pulse on the latest developments and breakthroughs in AI research and use these advances to inform our production-ready AI models. Our Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) models already outperform companies like Google, AWS, and Microsoft - which is why hundreds of companies and thousands of developers are using our API to transcribe and understand millions of videos, podcasts, phone calls, and Zoom meetings every day.
We’ve raised funding by leading investors including Accel, Insight Partners, Y Combinator’s AI Fund, Patrick and John Collision, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross. As part of a huge and emerging market, AssemblyAI is well on its way to becoming the leader in applied AI.
Join our world-class, remote team and help us build an iconic AI company!
The Role
We're looking for a full stack engineer with strong frontend and backend engineering skills. You'll help us build user dashboards, highly scalable developer-centric APIs, and backend systems powered by state-of-the-art ML models. Some of your responsibilities will include:
- Build new user dashboards
- Build new API features and endpoints
- Build highly scalable event-driven and realtime systems
- Instrument systems with metrics, tracing, and logging
- Refactor applications to eliminate tech debt
- Troubleshoot production issues
You'll love this job if you....
- Enjoy taking ownership and solving complex technical problems, even when there is no perfect solution.
- Enjoy being in a fast-paced, customer-facing role.
- You're excited to take initiative and tackle big technical challenges like building highly scalable architectures and achieving zero-downtime deployments.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience building front end applications using TypeScript, next.js and react
- 2+ years developing REST APIs in frameworks like Django, Flask, Tornado, Fiber or FastAPI
- 3+ years of professional experience building backend applications using Python or Go
- 1+ years of production support experience
- Has worked at a startup or high growth company
Skills
- Inquisitive. You’re always in search for both novel and effective solutions even when within highly constrained time and resources.
- Fast learner. Ramping up on difficult topics is a trivial task for you.
- Good sense of code structuring. You strive for making your code speak for itself and be readable by other humans.
- Proactive self starter. Driven to accomplish tasks, while acknowledging the value of seeking help when faced with a challenge.
Nice to Have
- Professional experience working with one of the following languages: Java
- Professional experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with containers
US Salary Range: $170,000 - $190,000
Remote Locations: North America, South America, Europe
Working at AssemblyAI
We are a small but mighty group of problem solvers, innovators, and experienced AI researchers with over 20 years of expertise in Machine Learning, Speech Recognition, and NLP. As a fully remote team, we’re looking for people to join our team who are ambitious, curious, and self-motivated. We put a lot of trust and autonomy into everyone on our team and want to find people who will add to our culture, not just fit in.
We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply!
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