Rime — Software Engineer

job posting·professional role·active

Official active full-time posting for Software Engineer at Rime, located in United States.

Recorded facts

Official site	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rime/eb8b60cb-c585-42cf-9a51-19db220a4d19 ↗
Geography	United States
job board posting id	eb8b60cb-c585-42cf-9a51-19db220a4d19
team	Infra and Engineering
location	United States
seniority	unspecified
department	Infra and Engineering
exact title	Software Engineer
role family	software_engineering
closing date	unknown
compensation	disclosed: false · parse state: not_publicly_disclosed
posting date	2026-07-09
employer name	Rime
posting status	active
workplace type	hybrid
employment type	full-time
required skills	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
selection basis	official_current_board_freshness_or_domain_critical_role
employer subtype	speech_audio_ai_company
preferred skills	unknown
responsibilities	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.
work authorization	unknown
education requirements	unknown