Senior Backend Software Engineer

Description

Vidrovr makes video useful. Our multi-modal machine learning platform turns disorganized heaps of media and tangles of live feeds into beautifully structured metadata to scale video understanding and automate organizational processes. We enable previously impossible applications, at previously impossible scales for the world’s most important companies and organizations.

Vidrovr fosters an open, supportive culture emphasizing curiosity, self-teaching, and fearlessness. We care deeply about helping America maintain its competitive edge in the global economy and strategic advantages through investing in high-technology artificial intelligence technologies. We work directly with leaders of the Federal government in developing and deploying game-changing technologies for understanding video content, from DARPA to the State Department and everything in between.

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Vidrovr, you will develop reliable and secure APIs in the Vidrovr platform that support customer use cases.  You will collaborate with team members from the frontend engineering, machine learning, and product teams.  Your verbal and written communication skills are proactive and efficient, and you share your ideas clearly in a remote working environment.  You thrive on learning and are comfortable working with a broad range of technologies.

Within 1 month you'll…

• Maintain, document, and deploy the Vidrovr platform’s Python API servers

• Improve the observability of Vidrovr’s API to better understand their general health

• Implement security best practices to protect data and systems

Within 6 months you'll…

• Have a large impact on the way we build RESTful APIs for flagship product features

• Increase end-to-end testing coverage of our APIs using industry best practices

• Test hypotheses for improvements through instrumentation and prototyping

$190,000 - $230,000 a year

This is a fully remote position. Vidrovr does not currently maintain a physical office. About half of our team is based in New York, with other members in Knoxville, Atlanta, Boston, Seattle, and Mexico City.

Benefits include, but are not limited to:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance

• Unlimited paid time off

• 401(k) plan with 4% employer matching

Vidrovr is an equal opportunity employer.