Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
ElevenLabs sits in a distinctive corner of the SaaS landscape: an AI-native platform where product value is delivered through APIs and developer tooling as much as end-user experiences. A full-stack engineer with a back-end leaning is positioned close to the core platform that underpins both creative workflows and agent-based use cases, which is increasingly how modern SaaS products differentiate—by embedding intelligence directly into the service layer.
For a long-term SaaS career, this kind of role tends to build durable strengths in platform thinking: designing reliable services, evolving public-facing interfaces, and balancing product iteration with operational rigor. Work that spans integrations, infrastructure, and customer-informed engineering maps well to common SaaS trajectories, including platform engineering, technical product ownership, and scaling roles where performance, security, and maintainability become competitive advantages.
This role is best suited to engineers who prefer breadth with depth—comfortable moving across systems, collaborating with adjacent functions, and making pragmatic design decisions under real usage. It should appeal to professionals who want their back-end expertise to remain central while still influencing end-to-end product outcomes in a remote, globally distributed SaaS environment.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is a research and product company defining the frontier of audio AI. Millions of people use our technology to read articles, voice over videos, and restore voices lost to disability. Leading developers and enterprises worldwide use ElevenLabs to build intelligent agents for support, sales, and education.
We launched in January 2023 with the first AI model to cross the threshold of human-like speech. In January 2025, we raised a $180 million Series C round, valuing the company at $3.3 billion. By September 2025, that valuation doubled to $6.6 billion as we surpassed $200 million ARR in under three years.
Our mission is to build the most important audio AI platform in the world, solve AI audio intelligence, and make information accessible in any voice, language, or sound.
Our core offerings are our Creative Platform and the Agents Platform, powered by proprietary Text to Speech, Speech to Text, and conversational AI models.
We are just getting started. If you want to work hard and create lasting impact, we would like 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 Bangalore, Dublin, London, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Warsaw.
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