# Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Media Capture) at Read

- Company: Read
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://read.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Read AI - Seattle HQ
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $180K to $210K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/read-ai/1efbaf9b-4f3e-483a-8d66-90d480b3ee69
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/read-senior-software-engineer-backend-media-capture/

## 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

Tags: Engineering