TEC Partners - Technical Recruitment Specialists | Staff Software Engineer

TEC Partners - Technical Recruitment Specialists

London

1 year ago

Applications closed

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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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