Senior Backend Engineer

The Opportunity:

As a Senior Engineer, you collaborate with your colleagues on the backend team to set a technical vision for our AI systems, as well as train and mentor engineers to develop their skills and technical understanding. You architect our AI web services in addition to improving existing features, reliability, flexibility, and scalability as usage increases.

We are looking for someone comfortable in several programming languages and excited about building new features in Go and Python. You should care about software design and have built systems that other people love to use and work with, and have experience building and scaling distributed, highly-available systems.

Our backend tech stack includes Go, Python, Postgres, Docker, Redis, REST, AWS, and Kubernetes, but don't worry if you haven't used some of these - we will teach you anything you don't know.

Impact:

You build the systems and services behind the Clarifai magic. Neural networks are data-hungry beasts, and you keep them well fed!

Requirements:

1. A minimum of 5 years backend software development experience.
2. Experience with one or more OOP programming languages and with one or more relational database management systems.
3. Experience with distributed systems.
4. Think fast! Move fast! We hope you thrive working in a fast-paced environment.
5. We prefer that you have experience working on a distributed team; great communication skills and transparency will help everyone on the team.

Nice to Have:

1. Experience with Go or Python.
2. ML-related experience.
3. Clarifai has lots of projects; experience in juggling multiple projects is highly preferred.
4. Agile experience.
5. Have you read the book “Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin)”? If yes, we’re in for success! If not, prove that you can still write clean code and we can buy the book for you once you join Clarifai to further improve your skills.