Software Engineer - Rime Ai

What You'll Own

You’ll be involved in a collection of the following

• -
• Platform APIs: authentication, billing, account management, and the surface that keeps the business running.
• -
• Feature work across the stack — supporting the rollout of the next generation of our tts and end-to-end speech models.
• -
• Integration and migration work as Rime evolves: token-based authentication, new billing and metering providers.
• -
• Maintenance and hardening of the current TTS API stack and assisting in its evolution.
• -
• Realtime, low-latency, horizontally scalable streaming speech infrastructure.
• What we're looking for
• -
• 5+ years of IC engineering experience with strong backend fundamentals.
• -
• Experience with at least one low level language: C++, Rust, Go.
• -
• Systems-level thinking: you understand what's happening at the network, storage, and runtime layers, not just the application layer.
• -
• You build clean interfaces and design for loose coupling; you don't create systems only you can debug. Bias towards codification and reproducibility.
• -
• Comfortable moving through an unfamiliar codebase and shipping without extensive hand-holding.
• -
• Strong async written communication — we're global and the written word is how work gets done.
• Bonus points
• -
• Experience integrating 3rd party API’s, such as payments, monitoring, and CRMs.
• -
• Experience with gRPC or other bidirectional binary streaming protocols.
• -
• Experience with multilingual monorepos where you pick the best language out of merit more than personal experience.
• -
• Experience with cloud infrastructure.
• -
• Experience at a small startup where the scope of your role was broad and undefined.
• -
• Comfort working within ML systems

Why Join Rime

• -
• Work across a real stack with real production stakes — not a feature team inside a large org.
• -
• Direct influence on engineering decisions at a formative company stage.
• -
• Small, high-ownership team with no layers between you and the work.
• -
• Meaningful equity upside.
• -
• High ownership, high standards, low bureaucracy.
• -
• SF / Bay Area.
• At Rime, we...
• -
• Are outliers
• -
• Cut through the hype to focus on the craft
• -
• Move fast with agency and freedom
• -
• Maintain a growth mindset, finding joy in the struggle
• -
• 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!