Software Engineer

What You'll Own

• Platform APIs: authentication, billing, account management, and the surface that keeps the business running.
• Feature work across the stack — supporting the rollout of the next generation of our TTS and end-to-end speech models.
• Integration and migration work as Rime evolves: token-based authentication, new billing and metering providers.
• Maintenance and hardening of the current TTS API stack and assisting in its evolution.
• Realtime, low-latency, horizontally scalable streaming speech infrastructure.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of IC engineering experience with strong backend fundamentals.
• Experience with at least one low level language: C++, Rust, Go.
• Systems-level thinking: you understand what's happening at the network, storage, and runtime layers, not just the application layer.
• You build clean interfaces and design for loose coupling; you don't create systems only you can debug. Bias towards codification and reproducibility.
• Comfortable moving through an unfamiliar codebase and shipping without extensive hand-holding.
• Strong async written communication — we're global and the written word is how work gets done.

Bonus Points

• Experience integrating 3rd party API’s, such as payments, monitoring, and CRMs.
• Experience with gRPC or other bidirectional binary streaming protocols.
• Experience with multilingual monorepos where you pick the best language out of merit more than personal experience.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure.
• Experience at a small startup where the scope of your role was broad and undefined.
• Comfort working within ML systems.