Senior Backend Engineer
About Gladia
Gladia was founded in 2022 by Jean-Louis Quéguiner, former VP Research & Innovation @OVHcloud, with a specific mission: to help companies leverage cutting-edge AI and retrieve actionable insights from audio data.
We raised $16M in Series A from top investors (XAnge, Illuminate Financial, XTX Ventures etc.) to build the ultimate audio AI infrastructure for voice-first platform.
Our raison d’être is to empower any voice-first companies enabling them to easily integrate our transcription capabilities into their products, regardless of language, industry, or tech stack. Our API supports advanced speech recognition and analysis features in over 100 languages, with exceptional accuracy and speed. Typical use cases are center solutions, note-taking assistant and meeting recorder.
We firmly believe that real-time AI represents the next frontier, poised to transform a multitude of industries.
At Gladia, we tackle ambitious technical challenges to support rapid growth, scaling from 500 hours to 3 million hours of transcription. As pioneers in speech-to-text technology , we’ve developed a Real-time Transcription API delivering batch-level quality with <300 ms latency across 100+ languages.
Joining as a Senior Backend Engineer (Typescript) means working on a cutting-edge platform in a team of 10 Senior Engineers, optimizing scalability and directly contributing to innovative AI solutions with real impact on production. Y ou’ll develop and maintain our product as well as optimize our current platform (code, test, scalability, stability, monitoring).
Role
You will create, develop and maintain the whole back-end technical stack
API component design & development
Build new product features from start to finish through conception, research, documentation, maintenance, and polish
Resolve technical problems to guarantee the best level of performance
Improve performance, reliability and observability on our product
Build & ensure state-of-the-art Python code & good practices
Technical stack
Python (FastAPI, Gunicorn, GPU frameworks/inference servers)
Triton Server
Kubernetes with k0s
PSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ
Prometheus, Grafana
Experience
With at least +6 years of experience on a product experiencing rapid growth, your work is well-crafted and well-tested for scale
You have a solid experience in Python
Involved with CI/CD processes (GitHub Actions)
Knowledge of at least PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ
Testing tools have no secrets for you, regardless of the environment you’re working on
Interest in clean code, software craftsmanship, performance, scalability and security
Want to learn and experiment
Profile
Proactive, agile, autonomous, tenacious, pragmatic, benevolent and curious
You think before you code
You solve problems in a collaborative way
You ensure high-quality code and test standards
You’re not afraid to try new things
Willing to work remotely with regular trips to meet with the team
Nice to have
Previous experience in real-time or performance-oriented topics
Previous experience in audio/ video streams
Previous experience or knowledge on AI-related topics
What Gladia offers
Full remote policy with team gathering in Paris every 1.5 months or work from our amazing offices & rooftop in the heart of Paris (Sentier)
Lunch vouchers (approx. 200€/month)
An allowance of 360 euros/year for your sports activities
An allowance of 300 euros for the adaptation of your workstation
A health insurance (100% coverage) and a pension contract with Alan Blue for you & your family
Unlimited vacation policy
Compensation Range: €70K - €75K