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Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Media Capture)

Read · Read AI - Seattle HQ · Remote

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About Read

Read AI, the fastest growing AI meeting assistant, ever, delivers real-time transcription, smart summaries, and enables AI search and discovery across all your content including meeting, messages, emails, CRM, and documents. Backed by Madrona.

About the role

The Media Capture Team owns the systems that capture and process the audio and video data fueling every downstream Read AI feature. As a Media Capture Engineer, you'll work across our meeting agents, media pipelines, and the live connections we manage with third-party meeting platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams.

What they're looking for

  • Proven experience building software solutions that perform at scale
  • Technical breadth across more than one domain (backend, frontend, devops, or data engineering), with a willingness to dive into whatever needs solving
  • Adaptability to learn new technologies and stacks as needed
  • A problem-solving mindset driven by curiosity and creativity
  • Resilience and self-reliance: comfortable operating with autonomy on ambiguous problems
  • Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
More about this role

At Read AI we’re redefining how teams collaborate by bringing intelligence to every conversation. Our platform supercharges productivity across meetings, messages, and email, so work gets done faster, smarter, and with better focus. We integrate seamlessly with tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Slack, and more, helping teams stay aligned and move forward, whether they’re in the same room or across time zones.

Backed by $81 million in funding from Smash Capital, Madrona, and Goodwater Capital, Read AI is growing. If you're excited to shape the future of AI-powered collaboration and want to make an impact at a product-focused startup, we’d love to meet you.

The Media Capture Team owns the systems that capture and process the audio and video data fueling every downstream Read AI feature. As a Media Capture Engineer, you'll work across our meeting agents, media pipelines, and the live connections we manage with third-party meeting platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams.

You'll be a true jack of all trades: tackling dynamic, cross-disciplinary problems and applying your toolkit to a variety of projects, from designing scalable systems for live data capture...

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