Full-Stack Engineer (Back-End Leaning)

ElevenLabs; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary stipend for L&D

Annual discretionary travel stipend

Monthly co-working stipend

Offsite company retreats

Job summary

ElevenLabs is hiring back-end engineers to expand the functionality of our system. Work across the platform that powers millions of users and integrate with other consumer/enterprise solutions.

You’ll help maintain a robust, secure infrastructure and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact engineering work. The role emphasizes Python expertise, strong backend foundations, and designing scalable APIs in a distributed, AI-driven product environment.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Python.
• Strong backend development background.
• Familiarity with APIs, cloud tools, storage, data structures.
• Knowledge of test design and security fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the platform on top of our voice models.
• Enhance products to be intuitive and powerful, with integrations where needed.
• Maintain and scale internal infrastructure for live, performant, secure services.
• Collaborate with Frontend, Growth and Sales to design customer solutions.

Skills

Python

Backend development

APIs

Security fundamentals

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

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 back-end engineers to expand the functionality of our system. There is flexibility in staffing engineers on projects across the company, depending on the project, your specific responsibilities might include:

Building and maintaining our platform on top of our cutting-edge voice models, which are used by millions of users.

Improving our existing products to ensure that they’re intuitive, powerful and make innovative use of our research team’s latest break-throughs. This could involve adding significant functionality, or building integrations with other common consumer/enterprise solutions.

Maintaining and strengthening our internal infrastructure as we scale and grow to ensure that our products remain live, performant and secure.

Collaborating closely with engineers and others from the Frontend, Growth and Sales teams to understand, and design solutions for our customers.

Requirements

We do not require any formal experience, certifications, or degrees. Instead, we are seeking enthusiastic software engineers who can showcase solving impressively hard problems with artifacts such as past projects, or GitHub contributions. We do require:

Expertise in Python.

A strong background in backend development.

Familiarity with common software and system design patterns and infrastructure including APIs, cloud infrastructure tools, storage solutions, data structures etc.

Knowledge about test design and security fundamentals.

Bonus:

Experience with Kubernetes.

Experience with Stripe or other payment processing providers.

Basics about how AI models work.

Location

This role is remote and can be executed globally. If you prefer, you can work from our offices in London, New York, San Francisco, and Warsaw.

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.