Staff Software Engineer

Who We Are: WellSaid Labs 

We’re creating Voice for everyone.

At WellSaid Labs, we enable creatives around the globe by putting high-tech, human parity technology into their hands, giving them the ability to add voice-over to any project and iterate with ease. Creative teams use WellSaid Lab’s Voice Studio to create compelling employee training, design unique digital experiences, and narrate audiobooks. We believe deeply in AI for Good, and that technology should be empowering, engaging, and fair to all people.

Who You Are: A Staff / Sr. Staff Engineer with an affinity for mentorship and teamwork

You are an experienced full-stack engineer and software architect with an eye for building scalable and user-pleasing web applications. You are comfortable working in an agile environment and collaborating with and technically leading other engineers, designers, and product managers. You are eager to learn new skills and technologies, and share your knowledge with more junior engineers. You have a strong sense of ownership and pride in your work, and strive to deliver high-quality designs and code that meet the needs of the users and the business - all while having fun in the process.

Ideally, you have extensive experience developing both front-end and back-end SaaS solutions using modern technologies and frameworks. 

How You’ll Contribute:  

We have developed a breakthrough AI algorithm that creates synthetic, realistic speech from text. You will provide technical leadership and will be an integral part of the development of the creative studio powered by this algorithm, enabling creatives to make lifelike voiceovers for videos, audiobooks, and training programs. 

In this role, you’ll be responsible for the development of features and maintenance of components of our Text-to-Speech application, Studio. This includes building a scalable system architecture vision, working with the team to iteratively make progress towards the future state, writing and reviewing technical and design specifications, owning delivery of parts of larger engineering initiatives, mentoring team members, and working both collaboratively as well as independently in a mature web codebase.

The projects you'll undertake are geared toward bringing improvements and new functionality to the WellSaid Labs Studio. Working directly with our product team, you'll collaboratively provide technical and architectural leadership to build features that have high impact and visibility in our customers' daily interactions with Studio as well as help WellSaid Labs improve and create a world-class software solution for creative teams.

In this role, you’ll:

• Build architecture designs: Outlining a future vision towards an ever-evolving robust, scalable, performant, secure, compliant, and maintainable system architecture and data model that meets future business use cases
• Validate architecture decisions: Creating prototypes and proof of concepts to validate architectural decisions and explore new technologies or approaches.
• Optimize system performance: Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize system performance through architectural improvements, code optimizations, and infrastructure enhancements.
• Technically lead the team: Guide the Studio engineering team to make technical decisions that are inline with the future architectural vision as well as work collaboratively to build future generations of our editor with a scalable avatar marketplace, streamlined customer onboarding experience, and an improved user experience for larger teams to collaborate together to create human-parity audio 
• Ensure Security and Compliance: Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations related to data security and privacy.
• Write Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for architectural designs, development processes, and best practices.

Also, you’ll be challenged to:

• Lead Technology Selection: Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools for front-end and back-end development, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements.
• Mature processes: Find opportunities to mature our engineering processes
• Code Review and Technical Guidance: Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to architectural principles and best practices. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering teams.
• Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, UI/UX design, quality assurance, and DevOps,