Staff Backend Software Engineer, Pindrop
Golang
Plus equity
Security, identity & intelligence software solutions
Job no longer available
Security, identity & intelligence software solutions
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
Plus equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
Pindrop's mission is to provide real-time security, identity, and trust on every voice interaction.
Role
Who you are
- You are resilient in the face of challenges, change, and ambiguity
- You are optimistic and believe that you can make a problem into a solution
- You are resourceful, excited to uncover innovative solutions and teach yourself something new when needed
- You take accountability, do the things you say you’ll do, under-promise and over-deliver
- You are nimble and adaptable when priorities change and continue to see the “forest through the trees”
- You are a strong problem-solver with excellent analytical skills
- You are an owner and enjoy taking on project leadership as well as mentorship
- You aren’t afraid to tackle UI issues
- You are a strong verbal and written communicator
- 6-10 Years of Software engineering experience
- Current and or recent programming experience in Golang required, additionally Python is preferred
- A strong understanding of software design principles, software architecture and design patterns as well as software development best practices, including testing, version control, and continuous integration
- Experience building microservices and RESTful APIs
- Experience with Relational and NOSQL databases
- Experience with cloud computing environments, especially AWS and GCP and container-based deployment using Docker and Kubernetes
- Participation in on-call rotation
- Experience with Elasticsearch and RabbitMQ is a plus
- Experience in monitoring and performance analysis of Enterprise platforms using tech stacks and tools such as Datadog, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus etc. is a plus
- Experience with UI development is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in the development and maintenance of software applications and systems
- You will be responsible for leading and contributing to complex software projects, providing technical expertise, and mentoring junior engineers
- You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver high-quality software solutions
- You will expand solution capabilities, implement new features driven by technological innovation that will lead the voice security market and gain tremendous experience as you work with high caliber engineers
- Software Development: Design, develop, test, and maintain our complex software applications, ensuring high-quality code and adherence to best practices. Play a critical role in the development and maintenance of our software products by designing, building, evolving, and scaling state-of-the-art solutions for our Pindrop Authentication platform
- Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance to junior engineers and the development team, including code reviews, architecture decisions, and mentoring. Be an influencer within our team
- Architecture and Design: Contribute to the design and architecture of software systems, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance
- Problem Solving: Analyze and solve complex technical problems, and make recommendations for improvements and optimizations
- Collaboration: Work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, including Product Owners, Architects, and platform users, to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions. to design, deliver, and deploy high-quality features
- Quality Assurance: Implement and advocate for best practices in testing and quality assurance, including unit testing, integration testing, and automated testing
- Documentation: Drive platform user adoptions through documentation, presentations and demos as well as technical specifications and API documentation
- Code Review: Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality and consistency
- Research and Innovation: Stay current with emerging technologies, tools, and programming languages and apply them where relevant to improve software development processes as well as work with Research scientists and other backend engineers to productionize Machine learning models for scale and consumed by other teams
- Project Management: Assist in project planning, estimation, and prioritization of tasks, ensuring timely delivery of software projects
- Security and Compliance: Ensure software adheres to security standards and compliance requirements, addressing vulnerabilities and potential risks
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
The global fraud detection and prevention market size is expected to grow to $141.75 billion by 2028. There has been increasing investment from key players to develop secure fraud solutions across industries such as BFSI, manufacturing, healthcare and others.
Pindrop is propelling enterprises and consumers toward a voice-driven future by unlocking the value of voice interactions. Interacting with a financial institution, a digital assistant, a video chat, or a smart device can provide access to our unique identities, and open new capabilities in security and intelligence evoked solely from a voice.
Pindrop is a big player in fraud detection and voice authentication, currently delivering voice solutions to 8 of the top 10 banks in the world. Their competitors include iovation, ID Experts, ZIMPERIUM and Telsis Limited.
A 2023 partnership with NTT Data has expanded Pindrop's presence in Japan, capitalising on NTT's knowledge of the Japanese market.
Insights
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back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2018
$90m
SERIES D
Mar 2017
$85.8m
SERIES C
Total funding: $298.6m
Company benefits
- Paid Parental Leave
- Company holidays
- Unlimited paid time off
- Remote-first culture - including monthly work from home stipends
- Annual professional development and learning budget
- Pick your own Apple MacBook Pro
- Pension scheme
- Medical insurance/Private Health care
- Life Insurance and Critical Illness Insurance
- Flex schedules
- Best in class tools and tech stack
- Fun activities to celebrate our accomplishments as a team
Company values
- Act with Deliberate urgency
- Create Evangelical customers
- Passionate about the fight
- Playing for the Team
- Make Hard easy
Company HQ
Home Park, Atlanta, GA
Founders
Software engineering experience at multiple companies, including Google and IBM.
Paul Judge
(Executive Chairman)Also co-founder of Purewire, Inc, Luma, and TechSquare Labs.
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