About
Synthesia develops an AI video platform for businesses, as well as products for visual communication and enterprise skill development.
Responsibilities
•Own architectural decisions for how features are built, released safely to customers, and supported long-term
•Mentor engineers and embed technical practices through code reviews and design partnerships
•Lead multi-quarter projects, break down complex problems into iteratively validated milestones, define success criteria, make trade-offs, and escalate when needed
•Partner with leadership to shape the roadmap and technical strategy, challenge requirements, propose alternatives, and influence what gets built and when
•Own the operational health of systems and use data to guide iteration, maintenance, and deprecation
•Define the technical direction of the area, anticipate challenges 12+ months ahead, propose scalable solutions, and build engineering capabilities
Requirements
•At least seven years of experience as a software engineer, including at least 2–3 years at senior/staff level
•Hands-on experience building and operating developer platforms, CI/CD systems, observability and metrics infrastructure, code quality automation, testing infrastructure, and/or developer tooling
•Experience shipping infrastructure or tooling that measurably improved developer velocity or reduced cognitive load
•Experience leading adoption of AI-powered developer tools or capabilities across an engineering organization
•Experience in a high-performing engineering organization, such as a scale-up or established company, and understanding of how infrastructure choices affect team velocity and product quality
•Experience integrating third-party services, including APIs, SaaS tools, and external platforms, into internal systems, with attention to reliability, security, and user experience
•Understanding of the operational constraints of running third-party code and services at scale
•Understanding of how platform and infrastructure work enables commercial outcomes
•Experience owning large technical areas end-to-end
Conditions
•Location: London, Berlin, Copenhagen, Dublin, Ljubljana, Munich, Zurich
•Base salary starts at EUR/GBP/CHF 130,000, plus equity (RSUs)
•25 days of leave plus local holidays; no additional paid or unpaid leave
•Full-time employment only; contractors are not possible
•Employment is usually through OysterHR
•Visa sponsorship is available only for candidates already in a UK/EU country who need support; relocation is not provided
•Remote work in other European locations may be supported subject to compliance and right-to-work checks
Hiring Process
•30–40-minute call with a Technical Recruiter
•45-minute call with an Engineering Manager
•90-minute Python Product Discovery/Implementation collaboration exercise (not Leetcode-style)
•60-minute System Design discussion
•60-minute leadership call
•The process pace depends on candidate availability
