Senior Backend Software Engineer, Hive

Salary not provided
Node.js
Postgres
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area
Hive

AI content moderation platform

Open for applications

Hive

AI content moderation platform

201-500 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseContentComputer VisionMachine LearningAutomation

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Node.js
Postgres
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

201-500 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseContentComputer VisionMachine LearningAutomation

Company mission

To use AI to unlock the next wave of intelligent automation.

Role

Who you are

  • We are looking for developers who are excited about launching new products and features into production, who can work autonomously and aren’t afraid to try new technologies, and who don’t back down from the challenges of scale.
  • Our ideal candidate has experience building core services and web-based APIs from the ground up, cares just as much about the product itself as the technology that powers it, and is capable of both structuring and writing clean, maintainable code
  • You have a Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field
  • A minimum of 5 years of experience with building scalable web applications
  • You have experience or a strong interest in writing applications in Node.js
  • You have designed and implemented highly-available distributed systems/microservices
  • You have experience building platforms that expose scalable backend APIs
  • You strongly believe in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
  • You have attention to detail and a passion for correctness
  • You are comfortable with ambiguity and scoping solutions with your teammates
  • You have strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action

Desirable

  • You have deep experience working with relational databases, Postgres preferred
  • Understanding monitoring and alerting platforms is a plus

What the job involves

  • Design, implement or improve features in a variety of backend systems including our REST APIs, microservices, data ingestion and processing systems, and distributed task/job processing systems
  • Write and maintain scalable, performant and secure code that can be shared across platforms
  • Meaningfully contribute to the product and core backend systems by suggesting and executing improvements
  • Improve engineering standards, tooling, processes and security
  • Practice test-driven development
  • Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
  • Utilize OWASP top 10 techniques to secure code from vulnerabilities
  • Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data maintenance handling as it relates to your role
  • Adhere to policies, guidelines and procedures pertaining to the protection of information assets
  • Report actual or suspected security and/or policy violations/breaches to an appropriate authority

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Insights

Top investors

16% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Equity
  • Catered meals
  • Comprehensive insurance
  • Corporate gym membership

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Apr 2021

$50m

SERIES D

Jun 2020

$35m

SERIES C

Total funding: $142.2m

Our take

Hive is an AI-as-a-service platform that empowers companies to make smarter decisions through intelligent automation. It is best known for its AI-powered image recognition system. It analyzes images of brands, products and celebrities that allow companies to understand when, where and how their assets are seen.

The challenge with artificial intelligence is that it takes a lot of human labor to make it all work. Hive has embraced this human element, employing over 2 million contractors to label images, video, text and audio content collected from the web. This annotated data is used to train Hive's content moderation AI. This has given it an edge in a competitive market which includes offerings from AI heavyweights such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google, as well as numerous startups like Sentropy and Spectrum Labs.

Hive has raised a significant amount of funding, closing a Series D round led by Glynn Capital in 2021. Hive is focusing on the continued development of its cloud-based deep learning models and plans to invest in further building its sales and marketing teams to expand its market presence.

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