Aflorithmic hiring Software Engineer in London Area, United Kingdom | LinkedIn

Aflorithmic Labs is a London Barcelona based fast growing investor-backed AI and VoiceTech Startup with global ambition. Aflorithmic has been featured in international press like TechCrunch, Business Insider, 20min and more due to the top notch voice cloning and automated audio production capabilities.

As Audio-As-A-Service API-first Voice Tech company our aim is to democratise the way audio is produced. We use AI and “Deepfake for Good” to create beautiful Voice and Audio from simple Text-to-speech - making creating beautiful audio content (from simple text) as easy as writing a blog. Join a 23 people strong international engineering, voice, R&D and business team made out of 13 nationalities (backgrounds include: Ex-University of Edinburgh, PhDs, European Space Agency, SAP, Amazon).

Welcome to Aflorithmic.ai - we are building a 'stripe for Audio' the simplest way to add audio to your app or IoT experience. We're API-first and we're a developer-focused company - one of our mottos is 'yes we ship'.

We're European at heart (Barcelona/London) but we think globally. We have strong technical talent, strong engineering leadership and two of our founders are data scientists. We care about Open Source Software, and sharing knowledge.

We have several staff with Masters and PhDs and we're focused on building a world-class engineering and research culture, although as an API-first company we're focused on hitting the ground running.

We are focused on building the infrastructure to enable the audio-economy, and the popularity of fitness apps, podcasts, smart speakers and the recent unicorn Clubhouse indicates that there is no sign of slow down.

Our customers span publishers, marketing companies and media companies- so you have a unique opportunity to build and design a platform that impacts thousands of people and in the future millions.

Your responsibilities

Create a technology plan and engineering culture aligned with customer needs and business goals - note the initial idea is already scoped for this project but there's a lot of adjustments that could happen

• Develop a technology plan and roadmap as part of our quarterly OKRs and annual planning to deliver transformative customer experiences and achieve our business objectives
• Working with the Head of Product and Product Manager, plan and release product roadmap features alongside supporting internal requirements for engineering

Planning scalable architecture to support quality product experiences, fast growth and revenue

• Build technology and maintain a technology architecture that’s scalable, being the ultimate decision maker on our technology stack
• Build and maintain a core data pipeline - we are very interested if you've worked on BI or data engineering pipelines in the past.
• Build and lead a technology function (bonus)

Our technology stack

• Javascript (NodeJS) for SDK code
• Python 3 for server side application code
• React for web application experiences
• Lambda for serverless parts of our application like transaction processing
• AWS for infrastructure and other services supporting the platform

Requirements:

You’re hands on but also willing to lead a team (and ideally you have some team management or team lead experience)

Excitement for building scalable systems

• You are excited about API’s, developer tools and creating great customer experiences. If you’re interested in data engineering as well we’re very excited to speak to you.
• You are excited about machine learning and related technologies

You are interested in building, inspiring and motivating a dedicated and high-performing team

• You understand how to attract, interview, test and win the best technology talent both co-located and remote
• You are interested in improving the processes of an engineering organisation

You’re an experienced engineer

• You’re experienced in software development, ideally in a fast-growth startup environment.
• You have some strong opinions on tools and design and care about 'code being a craft'.

Benefits

Perks & Benefits

• Learning & Development opportunities such as a biweekly journal club - we cover papers on databases and text to speech.
• Work from home
• Stock Options (subject to performance and time served) an exciting opportunity to get in early on a growth company
• A learning focused culture - we have 'Friday Wins' and a great atmosphere in the office (when the office is open)
• The opportunity to shape an engineering culture in a company in the fast-growing audio space