Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Back End Leaning (Enterprise) at Synthesia

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About the role

Responsibilities:
- Design, build and maintain core enterprise backend services that deliver security, reliability and scalability for large customers.
- Own production reliability: monitoring, observability, incident response and post-incident improvements.
- Lead multi-month, cross-team projects: decompose ambiguous problems, define milestones, and deliver iteratively.
- Translate business, security and regulatory requirements into technical designs and platform capabilities.
- Drive platform direction and technical trade-offs to support future scale, compliance and enterprise needs.
- Collaborate closely with product, security, legal and infrastructure teams to align on priorities and integrations.

Requirements:
- Minimum ~7 years software engineering experience with demonstrated senior or staff-level impact.
- Strong backend development and system design skills; experience with distributed systems at scale.
- Experience building enterprise-grade systems (security, compliance, data handling, access control, multi-tenant architectures).
- Proven ownership of production systems: observability, SLIs/SLOs, incident management and reliability improvements.
- Ability to work across functions, align stakeholders and drive technical initiatives end-to-end.
- Experience mentoring or leading engineers and influencing architecture and operational practices.

Responsibilities

You will work on core enterprise platform systems, focusing on backend services to ensure security, reliability, and scalability. You will also be responsible for the safe operation of these systems in production and driving technical initiatives end-to-end.

Requirements

Candidates must have at least seven years of experience as a software engineer with a strong background in backend development and system design. Experience in operating enterprise-grade systems and managing production environments is essential.

Key skills

• Backend development — in 171 other listings on The Stack
• System design — in 199 other listings on The Stack
• Distributed systems — in 342 other listings on The Stack
• Scalability — in 70 other listings on The Stack
• Observability — in 305 other listings on The Stack
• Monitoring — in 100 other listings on The Stack
• Incident response — in 64 other listings on The Stack
• Security — in 79 other listings on The Stack
• Compliance
• Data handling
• Access control
• Multi-tenant systems
• Platform services
• Reliability engineering

On The Stack (as of 2026-11-05)

• Synthesia has 6 other listings on The Stack, 6 of them marked as offering visa sponsorship.
• 214 visa-sponsored jobs in the United Kingdom on The Stack, posted in the last 60 days.
• 195 visa-sponsored software engineer jobs in Europe on The Stack, posted in the last 60 days.

Frequently asked questions about Synthesia

Is this Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Back End Leaning (Enterprise) role still open?

It was posted on 2026-04-08. Listings more than 30 days old may no longer be active, so check Synthesia's site before applying.

Does Synthesia offer visa sponsorship?

This listing is marked as offering visa sponsorship. Eligibility rules are set by the employer, so check the details on Synthesia's site.

Where is this role located?

The listing gives the location as London, United Kingdom. It is marked remote.

What skills does this role ask for?

The listing names: Backend development, System design, Distributed systems, Scalability, Observability, Monitoring, Incident response, Security, Compliance, Data handling, Access control, Multi-tenant systems, Platform services, Reliability engineering.