Standard AI · 2 hours ago
Staff Backend Engineer
Standard AI is a U.S.-based technology company founded in 2017, empowering retailers with insights into shopper behavior through their VISION Analytics Platform. The Staff Backend Engineer will act as a technical anchor for the computer vision analytics platform, making critical architectural decisions and collaborating with various teams to design and implement scalable solutions.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)RetailRetail TechnologyShoppingSoftware
Responsibilities
Act as a technical lead by making critical architectural decisions, setting engineering standards, and removing roadblocks to ensure the delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions
Design and implement the services, jobs, and APIs that support both our internal and external product suites
Build and deploy solutions for monitoring, tracing, and debugging services in production to ensure our code remains scalable and reliable
Iterate quickly on experimental systems to solve real user problems
Proactively identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks in our services
Elevate the entire engineering organization by mentoring junior engineers and establishing best practices for cloud-based microservices
Qualification
Required
8+ years of experience in backend focused engineering roles (or equivalent)
Experience in Python (or similar) with extensive experience building services, REST APIs, message queues
Designed schemas using a range of data stores (SQL, BigQuery, in-memory, etc), and can evaluate the tradeoffs between them effectively
Experience with cloud platforms and cloud based services (we use GCP)
Solve complex problems efficiently - sometimes by writing code, but also by knowing when not to write code
Take pride in 'elegant' architecture that is as maintainable as it is scalable, and ensure quality through automated testing and rigorous monitoring
Enjoy making others better through thoughtful code reviews and high-level design discussions
Company
Standard AI
Retailers today face some of the toughest challenges in physical stores — from tracking shopper behavior to optimizing promotions and in-store media.
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$239.38MKey Investors
SoftBank Vision FundEQT VenturesInitialized Capital
2024-04-08Secondary Market
2021-08-10Series C· $0.9M
2021-02-17Series C· $150M
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