About us

AssemblyAI is the #1 rated API for speech recognition. Thousands of developers use our APIs to transcribe millions of videos, podcasts, phone calls, and zoom meetings every day - powering innovative products like visual voicemail, meeting summarizers, and closed captioning.

We're backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, John and Patrick Collison of Stripe, Daniel Gross, and Nat Friedman. We were founded in 2017.

What we're looking for

We're looking for a senior backend engineer with strong software and cloud engineering skills. You'll help us build highly scalable developer-centric APIs powered by state-of-the-art ML models.

Responsibilities

• Build new api features and endpoints
• Build automated test suites and CI/CD pipelines
• Integrate and deploy state of the art machine learning models into production
• Build new batch and streaming applications
• Refactor applications to eliminate tech debt
• Troubleshoot production issues
• Participate in the team on-call rotation

You'll love this job if you...

• Enjoy solving complex technical problems, even when there is no perfect solution.
• Enjoy being in a fast paced, customer-facing role.
• Thrive in small, cross-functional teams. We like to wear many hats here!
• You're excited to tackle big technical challenges like fast scaling of ML models and achieving zero-downtime deploys.

Requirements

• 7+ years of engineering backend applications using any popular language such as python, java, c#, javascript, go, c/c++