Senior Backend Engineer, Lightricks
ML Platform
+ Stock Options
3+ days a week in office
Photo and video editing software
Be an early applicant
Photo and video editing software
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock Options
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Lightricks' mission is to build an innovative photo and video creation platform, and aims to enable creators and brands to produce engaging, top-performing content.
Role
Who you are
- Our ideal candidate is someone with a systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills, a sense of ownership and drive
- Someone who is as passionate as we are about the craft of software engineering and system architecture, and understands the challenges of building complex backend systems
- Someone who believes in writing resilient code and reliable infrastructure, but can still appreciate the realities of business and can deliver on a tight schedule in a fast-paced environment
- An individual who loves learning, understands the value of teamwork and cherishes the feedback of other talented engineers
- 5+ years of experience developing production backend systems
- Hands-on experience in building, deploying, and maintaining scalable backend systems in a cloud environment
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Highly independent, accountable, and a team player, with an ability to own features from planning to release
- Excellent understanding of critical production systems concepts - high availability, reliability, and scalability
- Proven experience in leading key features through system and API design
- B.Sc. in computer science or similar quantitative field
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a plus
- Experience working with ML and large compute systems is a plus
- Experience with CI/CD tools like Github Actions and Argo CD, and/or monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana is a plus
What the job involves
- Our ML Platform backend team is responsible for building Lightricks’ ML serving platform and creating streamlined processes to bring functional research code into production-grade systems, allowing millions of our app users to enjoy this magic
- Take a key role in designing and building our ML serving platform, working closely with our Devops, engineers and researchers
- Design and develop reliable and scalable production core services that are used by millions of users of our apps every day
- Improve our platform’s reliability through testing, automation, and monitoring
- Learn and apply industry best practices and share this knowledge with other teams through guidance, lectures and workshops
- Develop modules and tools to ease the development and deployment processes for our platform users
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, and inspire others to do the same
- Conduct Technical Design & code reviews
- Practice effective & actionable postmortem
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Lightricks creates a range of apps that aim to make photo and video editing intuitive and accessible to individuals.
All their apps are free, but offer in-app paid subscription plans that unlock functionality. With 40 million monthly users and over 550 million downloads worldwide, Lightricks gained unicorn status back in July 2019.
Lightricks have recently expanded into creator services through their acquisition of Popular pays (connecting creators with brands). This acquisition is the company's first step towards becoming a single resource for creators and brands alike.
With a growing range of photo and video editing tools such as Facetune, Videoleap and Photoleap which have incorporated facial recognition and generative AI features, the company is well poised to serve the growing demand for intuitive and user-friendly content creation software.
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Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
38% female employees
-12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Joining as Operations Lead in the UK, I was the first person to take on this role so there was a very steep learning curve and a lot to get from day..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2021
$100m
SERIES D
Jul 2019
$135m
SERIES C
Total funding: $305m
Company benefits
- Heavily Discounted 4-Year Stock Option Grant
- Private Medical Insurance For You & Your Loved Ones
- Contributions Towards Health & Fitness Memberships
- 7% Matched Pension Contributions
- Weekly & Monthly Team Building Activities - Games Nights, Happy Hour, Pottery Making, Cocktail Workshops, and much much more!
- Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, Refreshments & Coffee!
- Travel To Our Global Sites
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Create fun
- Invest in people
- Get things done
- Strong opinions, Loosely held
- Embrace change
Company HQ
Finsbury, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Zeev Farbman
(CEO)Previously completed a PhD in computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before co-founding Lightricks in 2013
Nir Pochter
(CMO)Previously completed a PhD in computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yaron Inger
(CTO)Previously a lecturer in computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Amit Goldstein
(COO)Previously completed a PhD in computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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