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Software Engineer - Developer Foundations

AssemblyAI

Role brief

The Role

We're looking for a backend engineer with strong software and cloud engineering skills. You'll help us build highly scalable developer-centric tooling and backend systems supporting state-of-the-art ML models. Some of your responsibilities will include:

  • Build automated test suites and CI/CD pipelines
  • Build highly scalable event-driven and realtime systems
  • Build libraries for internal teams
  • Instrument systems with metrics, tracing, and logging
  • Refactor applications to eliminate tech debt

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 professional experience building backend applications using Go or Python
  • 2+ years of experience with OOP design patterns, reliability and scaling
  • Experience with cloud providers such as GCP or AWS
  • 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.
  • Collaborative. Recognizes that development is a team effort and knows when to ask for help, lean in and work with others to get the job done. 

Nice to Have

  • Experience building and maintaining cicd deployment pipelines
  • Experience developing REST APIs in frameworks like Django, Flask, Tornado, Fiber or FastAPI
  • Experience with Bazel and monorepos

US Salary Range: $170,000 - $190,000 per year 

Remote Locations: North America - Eastern Timezone, Germany, Canada - Eastern Timezone, Switzerland and UK