The Opportunity

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our engineering team. This is a critical role for an experienced, hands-on technical leader with a broad and deep skillset across multiple languages such as JavaScript, Rust, Python, JVM-based (Java/Kotlin) and strong experience building and scaling distributed systems in cloud environments such as AWS or Google Cloud.

As a Staff Engineer, you will help drive the technical direction of aspects of our platform, setting high standards for system design, code quality, best practices and architectural clarity. You will collaborate across product and engineering to simplify complexity, improve reliability, and make deliberate trade-offs that empower our teams to move fast without sacrificing maintainability.

This is a unique opportunity to join an early-stage company led by serial entrepreneur Andrew Filev (founder of a unicorn startup), and shape a product that is redefining how software is built.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a technical thought leader, setting a high bar for engineering quality.
• Be hands-on, writing code for new features, prototyping, refactoring existing code to meet best practices, etc. 
• Lead design discussions and architecture reviews for high-impact projects.
• Collaborate with product, design, and research teams to define and evolve user-facing functionality with real developer impact.
• Evaluate trade-offs thoughtfully across performance, scalability, complexity, and cost and advocate for clear, maintainable solutions.
• Guide and mentor other engineers, helping them grow while raising the overall technical maturity of the team.
• Influence engineering culture, driving best practices in testing, observability, security, and cloud design.

Essential Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering covering multiple large-scale, production-grade systems.

• Expert in at least one of the following languages: JavaScript, Python, Rust, JVM-based (Java/Kotlin) with proficiency in at least two. 

• Experience building and scaling distributed systems with reliability and performance in mind. This should cover both compute and data layers and include best practices on the observability of such systems.

• Strong background in cloud architecture and infrastructure design in AWS or Google Cloud environments.

• Demonstrated ability to simplify complex systems and reduce unnecessary technical debt while balancing the need to move fast to compete.

• Strong communication skills with a track record of aligning stakeholders, leading cross-functional efforts, and influencing without authority.

• A deep shift‑left mindset throughout the entire SDLC, with early integration of security, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Deep familiarity with AI assistants, a solid grasp of the evolving AI landscape, and the ability to translate trends and capabilities into practical product improvements.

• Curiosity, pragmatism, and a willingness to challenge assumptions.

• Experience or a strong interest in building collaborative, real-time systems is beneficial. 

Why Join Zencoder?

• Shape the Future of Software Creation: We’re not just improving how developers write code — we’re redefining how ideas turn into reality. By closing the gap between concept and execution, we’re creating tools that will influence every industry that relies on software.
• Massive Impact, Real Ownership: At Zencoder, you’ll have full visibility into how your work moves the product and the company forward. You’ll ship features that matter, see the immediate impact of your decisions, and get feedback directly from users — fast.
• ICs Are the Core: Individual Contributors are the highest-status role at Zencoder. Our culture celebrates those who lead by doing — who create momentum, inspire others, and turn ideas into shipped products.
• High-Caliber Team & Founder: Work alongside exceptional AI and software engineers, and learn directly from Andrew Filev, founder of a unicorn startup, who brings deep expertise in scaling world-class technology companies.
• Global & Flexible: We hire talent, not coordinates. Work from wherever you’re happiest and most productive — as long as you bring the energy, focus, and results.
• Aligned Incentives: Our equity plan ensures that when we succeed, you succeed. Your impact compounds as the company grows.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a passionate Senior Software Engineer to collaborate on building the next-generation AI coding platform. This is a rare opportunity to join an early-stage company founded by Andrew Filev (founder of a unicorn startup) — to help scale it into a thriving, world-changing business. Together, we’re shaping the future of software development — closing the gap between idea and reality, and influencing not only how code is written, but how progress happens across every field that depends on software.

Key Responsibilities

You’ll take ownership of designing and building key features. Our stack currently consists of TypeScript, Kotlin, and Rust, and you may be expected to work across all of them. This is not a “just code what’s assigned” role — we’re looking for people with a product mindset, who think deeply about users, bring ideas for product growth, and aren’t afraid to propose and launch new things.

We value people who make things happen through their own enthusiasm, rather than waiting for managers to tell them what to do. Here, individual contributors hold the highest status — they are the driving force behind the company’s progress. You’ll work alongside top professionals in an environment that celebrates curiosity, creativity, and results.

Essential Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building complex, production-grade applications, including deep expertise in backend development in Java / Kotlin / TypeScript / Python / Rust.
• Strong computer science foundation combined with a deep understanding of modern software architecture and design principles — and a proven record of applying them effectively in real-world, user-facing products.
• Product mindset — you think beyond code, care about the “why” behind the feature, and proactively contribute ideas that make the product better for users.
• Strong sense of ownership — you take initiative, drive projects from concept to launch, and thrive when given autonomy and accountability for outcomes.
• Deep familiarity with AI assistants, a solid grasp of the evolving AI landscape, and the ability to translate trends and capabilities into practical product improvements.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively within a fast-moving, cross-functional team — communicating clearly, sharing context, and supporting others to achieve shared goals.
• Passion for continuous learning, experimentation, and innovation — you stay curious, adapt quickly, and always look for ways to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
• Comfort working in dynamic, fast-changing environments — ideally with prior experience in start-ups or early-stage teams where clarity must often be created, not awaited.
• Experience or a strong interest in building collaborative, real-time systems is beneficial. 

Why Join Zencoder?

• Shape the Future of Software Creation: We’re not just improving how developers write code — we’re redefining how ideas turn into reality. By closing the gap between concept and execution, we’re creating tools that will influence every industry that relies on software.
• Massive Impact, Real Ownership: At Zencoder, you’ll have full visibility into how your work moves the product and the company forward. You’ll ship features that matter, see the immediate impact of your decisions, and get feedback directly from users — fast.
• ICs Are the Core: Individual Contributors are the highest-status role at Zencoder. Our culture celebrates those who lead by doing — who create momentum, inspire others, and turn ideas into shipped products.
• High-Caliber Team & Founder: Work alongside exceptional AI and software engineers, and learn directly from Andrew Filev, founder of a unicorn startup, who brings deep expertise in scaling world-class technology companies.
• Global & Flexible: We hire talent, not coordinates. Work from wherever you’re happiest and most productive — as long as you bring the energy, focus, and results.
• Aligned Incentives: Our equity plan ensures that when we succeed, you succeed. Your impact compounds as the company grows.

The Opportunity

We're looking for an experienced engineer to raise the bar on how our organization builds, tests, ships, and operates software - for both human engineers and AI coding agents.

This is AI harness engineering: the discipline of making the fundamentals (CI/CD, testing, IaC, observability, secure delivery) so solid and well-shaped that agents can work productively inside them. Developer experience and platform engineering are a subset of that work. When the harness is good, humans ship faster and agents stop getting stuck on things that shouldn't be hard.

Security is inseparable from this. AI agents are accelerating both the pace and the shape of vulnerabilities, and secure delivery has to be built into the same stream as everything else - not bolted on. 

Product teams own their services, pipelines, and tests. Your job is to raise the ceiling across the org - defining standards, building leverage, and helping teams level up their workflows, tooling, infrastructure, security posture, and necessary changes for AI Agents.

Key Responsibilities

This is a hands-on lead role - you'll set direction and be deep in the code, infra, and pipelines yourself. A lead here is very much a builder.

• Shape the platform and infrastructure that everything else runs on — the foundations product teams build on top of
• Improve the full dev loop: local development, CI/CD, deployment, and production feedback
• Define and drive standards around testing, IaC, observability, and secure delivery — and help product teams adopt them
• Build shared tooling, templates, and golden paths that create real leverage — paved roads teams actually want to use
• Own secure delivery end-to-end: unify security scanning, secrets management, dependency and supply-chain controls, and pen-testing workflows into the core pipeline so secure-by-default is the path of least resistance
• Stay ahead of the shifting security landscape as AI agents reshape both how vulnerabilities emerge and how they're exploited
• Shape repos, tooling, and conventions so coding agents can navigate them efficiently — clear structure, good test signal, fast feedback loops, well-scoped contexts, and docs agents can actually use
• Measure impact against DORA metrics and qualitative signals from engineering teams

Essential Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background 
• Experience designing and building internal platforms - the judgment to know what to abstract, what to expose, and what to leave alone
• Deep experience with CI/CD, automated testing, IaC, and developer tooling
• Strong grasp of modern software security and secure delivery practices (shift-left / SecDevOps)
• A product mindset toward internal tooling - treating engineers and agents as users, and measuring whether the platform actually makes them faster
• Real fluency with AI coding agents - how they work, where they fail, and what makes them effective
• Understanding e2e test frameworks such as Playwright and how to scale them is a big plus

Why Join Zencoder?

• Shape the Future of Software Creation: We’re not just improving how developers write code — we’re redefining how ideas turn into reality. By closing the gap between concept and execution, we’re creating tools that will influence every industry that relies on software.
• Massive Impact, Real Ownership: At Zencoder, you’ll have full visibility into how your work moves the product and the company forward. You’ll ship features that matter, see the immediate impact of your decisions, and get feedback directly from users — fast.
• ICs Are the Core: Individual Contributors are the highest-status role at Zencoder. Our culture celebrates those who lead by doing — who create momentum, inspire others, and turn ideas into shipped products.
• High-Caliber Team & Founder: Work alongside exceptional AI and software engineers, and learn directly from Andrew Filev, founder of a unicorn startup, who brings deep expertise in scaling world-class technology companies.
• Global & Flexible: We hire talent, not coordinates. Work from wherever you’re happiest and most productive — as long as you bring the energy, focus, and results.
• Aligned Incentives: Our equity plan ensures that when we succeed, you succeed. Your impact compounds as the company grows.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a passionate Senior Software Engineer to collaborate on building the next-generation AI coding platform. This is a rare opportunity to join an early-stage company founded by Andrew Filev (founder of a unicorn startup) — to help scale it into a thriving, world-changing business. Together, we’re shaping the future of software development — closing the gap between idea and reality, and influencing not only how code is written, but how progress happens across every field that depends on software.

Key Responsibilities

You’ll take ownership of designing and building key features. Our stack currently consists of TypeScript (incl. React Native), Kotlin, and Rust, and you may be expected to work across all of them. This is not a “just code what’s assigned” role — we’re looking for people with a product mindset, who think deeply about users, bring ideas for product growth, and aren’t afraid to propose and launch new things.

We value people who make things happen through their own enthusiasm, rather than waiting for managers to tell them what to do. Here, individual contributors hold the highest status — they are the driving force behind the company’s progress. You’ll work alongside top professionals in an environment that celebrates curiosity, creativity, and results.

Essential Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building complex, production-grade applications, including deep expertise in React Native and backend development experience in Java / Kotlin / TypeScript / Python / Rust.
• Strong computer science foundation combined with a deep understanding of modern software architecture and design principles — and a proven record of applying them effectively in real-world, user-facing products.
• Product mindset — you think beyond code, care about the “why” behind the feature, and proactively contribute ideas that make the product better for users.
• Strong sense of ownership — you take initiative, drive projects from concept to launch, and thrive when given autonomy and accountability for outcomes.
• Deep familiarity with AI assistants, a solid grasp of the evolving AI landscape, and the ability to translate trends and capabilities into practical product improvements.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively within a fast-moving, cross-functional team — communicating clearly, sharing context, and supporting others to achieve shared goals.
• Passion for continuous learning, experimentation, and innovation — you stay curious, adapt quickly, and always look for ways to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
• Comfort working in dynamic, fast-changing environments — ideally with prior experience in start-ups or early-stage teams where clarity must often be created, not awaited.

Why Join Zencoder?

• Shape the Future of Software Creation: We’re not just improving how developers write code — we’re redefining how ideas turn into reality. By closing the gap between concept and execution, we’re creating tools that will influence every industry that relies on software.
• Massive Impact, Real Ownership: At Zencoder, you’ll have full visibility into how your work moves the product and the company forward. You’ll ship features that matter, see the immediate impact of your decisions, and get feedback directly from users — fast.
• ICs Are the Core: Individual Contributors are the highest-status role at Zencoder. Our culture celebrates those who lead by doing — who create momentum, inspire others, and turn ideas into shipped products.
• High-Caliber Team & Founder: Work alongside exceptional AI and software engineers, and learn directly from Andrew Filev, founder of a unicorn startup, who brings deep expertise in scaling world-class technology companies.
• Global & Flexible: We hire talent, not coordinates. Work from wherever you’re happiest and most productive — as long as you bring the energy, focus, and results.
• Aligned Incentives: Our equity plan ensures that when we succeed, you succeed. Your impact compounds as the company grows.