You’ll be involved in a collection of the following:
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Platform APIs: authentication, billing, account management, and the surface that keeps the business running.
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Feature work across the stack — supporting the rollout of the next generation of our tts and end-to-end speech models.
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Integration and migration work as Rime evolves: token-based authentication, new billing and metering providers.
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Maintenance and hardening of the current TTS API stack and assisting in its evolution.
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Realtime, low-latency, horizontally scalable streaming speech infrastructure.
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5+ years of IC engineering experience with strong backend fundamentals.
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Experience with at least one low level language: C++, Rust, Go.
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Systems-level thinking: you understand what's happening at the network, storage, and runtime layers, not just the application layer.
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You build clean interfaces and design for loose coupling; you don't create systems only you can debug. Bias towards codification and reproducibility.
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Comfortable moving through an unfamiliar codebase and shipping without extensive hand-holding.
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Strong async written communication — we're global and the written word is how work gets done.
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Experience integrating 3rd party API’s, such as payments, monitoring, and CRMs.
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Experience with gRPC or other bidirectional binary streaming protocols.
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Experience with multilingual monorepos where you pick the best language out of merit more than personal experience.
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Experience with cloud infrastructure.
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Experience at a small startup where the scope of your role was broad and undefined.
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Comfort working within ML systems
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Work across a real stack with real production stakes — not a feature team inside a large org.
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Direct influence on engineering decisions at a formative company stage.
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Small, high-ownership team with no layers between you and the work.
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Meaningful equity upside.
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High ownership, high standards, low bureaucracy.
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SF / Bay Area.
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Are outliers
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Cut through the hype to focus on the craft
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Move fast with agency and freedom
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Maintain a growth mindset, finding joy in the struggle
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Do the right things, knowing that it'll lead to making money
If that sounds like you too, you'll be a great fit for Rime!