Principal Backend Engineer, Otter.ai
$260-310k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Voice-first team collaboration app for meetings and conversations
Be an early applicant
Voice-first team collaboration app for meetings and conversations
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$260-310k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make all voice conversations accessible and searchable through Ambient Voice Intelligence™.
Role
Who you are
- BS/MS in Computer Science from a top school, or have substantial production server experience (or equivalent)
- 10+ years of experience in developing/architecting large scale systems
- Hands-on coding and development in Python, C++, Java and other languages
- Experience with platforms such as Nginx, Kafka, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, and other scalable systems
- Familiar with DevOps platforms such as Ansible, Salt, Docker, Kubernetes and AWS
- Strong ability to write and debug high performance code that is reusable, scalable, testable and efficient
- Leadership experience in architecting and leading large scale engineering projects across multiple teams
- Ability to engineer systems designed for high growth and rapid scale
- Ability to communicate effectively with peers in design, product management, data insights, and engineering to respond to requirements and diagnose problems
What the job involves
- We are seeking a talented Principal Engineer, Backend to help lead the development, deployment and management of our web services and related infrastructure to join our engineering team.
- Members of the engineering team work collaboratively as a group and with colleagues in technology, who are devising new speech recognition solutions, and product management to deploy systems and infrastructure to serve the needs of end-user professionals and enterprise clients across a number of verticals
- Drive the development of cutting-edge web services that support next-gen speech recognition solutions, directly influencing how professionals and enterprises interact with voice technology
- Play a key role in building infrastructure that serves a diverse range of industries, impacting businesses across healthcare, finance, education, and more
- Design and deploy backend systems that ensure seamless, reliable performance, enhancing productivity and efficiency for end-users across various professional domains
- Lead cross-functional teams, collaborating with product management and technology experts, to deliver robust and scalable backend solutions that align with strategic goals
- Contribute to the long-term scalability and reliability of our web services, ensuring the infrastructure can meet the growing demands of enterprise clients globally
- Take on a leadership role within the engineering team, mentoring junior engineers and helping to define the technical direction of the company
Our take
Otter specifically thought of business professionals who are running from one meeting to the next, while juggling multiple projects with various teams. The company's technology integrates with platforms like Zoom, providing a way to record meetings and convert speech to text in real-time. It then streamlines communications for smarter, more collaborative, and more productive meetings—the first use of conversational AI to turn meetings into an actionable workflow.
This allows people to benefit from captioning, as well as teams to have a written record of the conversation, which can be edited and shared. Its AI can also highlight and comment on important sections of a meeting transcript, and automatically tag action items. In addition to businesses, students and universities – including UCLA, Tulane, and Western Kentucky – use the tool to increase accessibility.
The platform is used in more than 230 countries and has transcribed over 100 million meetings. Otter is far from alone in the audio transcription market, estimated to be worth nearly $41.89 billion by 2030, with Google’s free transcription tool posing a potential threat, as well as competitors such as Rev.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2021
$10m
CONVERTIBLE
Feb 2021
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $73m
Company benefits
- Stock and equity package
- Parental leave benefits
- Retirement savings program 401(k)
- Boundless snacks and free catered lunches
- Team lunches and social events
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive package that includes health care (medical, dental, vision, life, disability) and mental health support
- $500 home office stipend
Company values
- Set Audacious Goals
- Work with Passion
- Engage with Authenticity
- Build with Ingenuity
- Operate with Speed
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Articles
Leadership
Sam Liang
(CEO)Earned a PhD from Stanford and then joined Cisco as a Senior Software Engineer. Worked as a Tech Lead at Google and is a member of the Forbes Technology Council.
Yun Fu
(CTO)Has a PhD in Computer Science from Duke. Worked as Yahoo's Principal Software Engineer and was Head of Infrastructure at Particle Media.
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