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TEC Partners - Technical Recruitment Specialists | Staff Software Engineer

TEC Partners - Technical Recruitment Specialists
London
9 months ago
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PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF NOT BASED IN THE UK.


TEC Partners is currently collaborating with the latest AI Unicorn, They are after a Senior / Principal / Staff Engineer to join their core services team, and you will lead the charge in building and maintaining a distributed system for user-specific voices. This role offers the unique opportunity to contribute to scaling their current product and driving future projects in our robust pipeline. They are seeking individuals who thrive on taking ownership of workstreams and aspire to build and lead teams.


Responsibilities:

  • Develop and maintain a distributed system for user-specific voices
  • Lead workstreams and build out engineering teams
  • Scale our multi-tenant SaaS backend to handle a large volume of concurrent requests
  • Shape the future of our product through the execution of innovative projects


Requirements:

  • Minimum of 5+ years of experience in software development
  • Strong computer science fundamentals
  • Experience building APIs and integrating with third-party APIs and service providers
  • Proven expertise in building complex, resilient workflows with asynchronous jobs on multiple services
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems and challenges in scaling such systems
  • Ideally, experience in building SaaS products involving a significant amount of user-submitted audio or video data
  • Ideally, experience in building SaaS services around machine learning models and handling a large number of user-specific models
  • Proficient in Python and Typescript.

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