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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Back End

Europe

$100k+ / year

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🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll join the platform engineering team at Synthesia, the world's leading AI video platform, building distributed backend systems that serve Fortune 100 clients. You'll drive long-term architecture decisions, own reliability and observability, and collaborate across product, security, and infrastructure teams.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Build and operate backend services for the enterprise platform
  • Own production systems including observability and incident response
  • Break down complex problems into iteratively deliverable steps
  • Translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable solutions

📋 Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience at senior/staff level
  • Experience building and operating backend systems at scale
  • Strong expertise in backend development and system design
  • Experience with enterprise-grade systems (security, compliance, multi-tenancy)

✨ Nice to Have

  • Full-stack experience
  • Previous experience leading projects or mentoring engineers

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 🌴 25 days leave plus local holidays
  • 📈 Stock option plan
  • 🏖️ Remote work from EU, UK, or Switzerland
  • 💼 Visa sponsorship for candidates already in UK/EU

📨 Hiring Process

30-40min recruiter call, 45min engineering manager call, 90min live coding, 60min system design, 45min leadership call; can be completed in 7 working days.

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