Back-end engineer

Distributed

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Remote

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Low-level / back-end (see text)

Dev tools / SaaS

Brief description

Challenging, performance heavy role at an early-stage company (this is their 6th eng hire). They build tools that allow developers to build on top of conversation data from meetings, video calls, etc across a range of different platforms. Think something like a note-taker that joins meetings, a helper for sales teams that embeds relevant information directly into the video stream, or a meeting bot that times different sections of a meeting to keep it on track.

You'd be working on:

  • High-performance, real time code

  • Large-scale infrastructure (2M+ EC2 instances in the last month) processing high volumes of data (600 GB/sec of video at peak load)

  • Building the core product, from APIs to real-time video processing pipelines, owning major features from development to deployment and in production.

  • Operating and scaling video-processing infrastructure - each engineer maintains their own code in production.

  • Helping customers solve their problems. Everyone on the team participates in customer support so that they stay connected to users.

What they're looking for

  • 4+ years of engineering experience, particularly with real-time, performance-critical applications

  • Customer empathy and a desire to work with customers directly and make product decisions

  • The ability to learn and be productive quickly in new domains

  • A background as a founder, especially for a dev-tools startup

Culture-wise, flat, high autonomy, very focused on finding really ambitious/highly motivated people (one of their explicit pitches is "come work for us and then go start your own company in a couple years").

What they're offering

  • Salary: 170k-220k

  • Equity: 0.2-0.35%

  • Growing rapidly (~4.5M ARR, 13x growth YoY)

  • Remote anywhere (though they prefer not EU-range timezones)

  • Rust, Django, Postgres stack, running on k8s on AWS