Full-Stack Engineer (Backend Leaning) - CreativeVoices

ABOUT ELEVENLABS

ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology.

We launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model. Today, we serve millions of users and thousands of businesses - from fast-growing startups to large enterprises like Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Our investors are some of the world's most prominent, including Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth and Sequoia. We've raised $781M in funding and our last valuation was $22B - multiples of 11, always.

• We have expanded from voice into three main platforms:
• - ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale.
• - ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages.
• - ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models.
• Everything we do is the result of the creativity and commitment of our team - builders doing the best work of their lives. We are researchers, engineers, and operators. IOI medalists and ex-founders. If you want to work hard and create lasting positive impact, we want to hear from you.

HOW WE WORK

• - High-velocity: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy.
• - Impact not job titles: We don’t have job titles. Instead, it’s about the impact you have. No task is above or beneath you.
• - AI first: We use AI to move faster with higher-quality results. We do this across the whole company—from engineering to growth to operations.
• - Excellence everywhere: Everything we do should match the quality of our AI models.
• - Global team: We prioritize your talent, not your location.

WHAT WE OFFER

• - Innovative culture: You’ll be part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI, surrounded by a team pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
• - Growth paths: Joining ElevenLabs means joining a dynamic team with countless opportunities to drive impact - beyond your immediate role and responsibilities.
• - Learning & development: ElevenLabs proactively supports professional development through an annual discretionary stipend.
• - Social travel: We also provide an annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year, however you choose.
• - Annual company offsite: Each year, we bring the entire team together in a new location - past offsites have included Croatia and Italy.
• - Co-working: If you’re not located near one of our main hubs, we offer a monthly co-working stipend.

ABOUT THE ROLE

• We are looking for an experienced backend-leaning full-stack engineer to build and scale the voice systems at the core of ElevenLabs.
• Creative Voices owns the voice and speech products inside ElevenCreative, including Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text, Voice Changer, Voice Isolator, Voice Library and Voice Cloning. You will join a small team turning frontier speech research into products used by millions.
• You will own backend architecture and production systems, working closely with research engineering and security. Your responsibilities will include:
• - Modernising voice architecture, including data models, storage and APIs.
• - Making voice cloning and fine-tuning pipelines reliable through monitoring, retries and failure recovery.
• - Building voice creation, verification and recommendation capabilities.
• - Owning workstreams from design to production, including frontend changes where needed.

REQUIREMENTS

• - Strong backend engineering experience building and scaling high-traffic production systems.
• - Strong system design and database fundamentals, including data modelling, concurrency, migrations and security.
• - Experience operating production services, with strong debugging, monitoring and failure recovery skills.
• - Independent ownership, clear communication and the drive to ship quickly, with confidence working across the stack.
• We value engineering fundamentals over specific languages or databases. Prior audio experience is not required. Experience modernising complex systems or building in a high-growth company is a plus.
• We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses.