Staff Software Engineer, Hive
Backend
AI content moderation platform
Open for applications
AI content moderation platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To use AI to unlock the next wave of intelligent automation.
Role
Who you are
- You have a Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field
- You have 8+ years of experience building web applications
- You have successfully implemented highly-available distributed systems/microservices
- You have delivered scalable backend APIs
- You have strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action
Desirable
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
- Hands on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction
- Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
- Interest and ability to learn other coding language
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
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
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.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2021
$50m
SERIES D
Jun 2020
$35m
SERIES C
Total funding: $142.2m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Catered meals
- Comprehensive insurance
- Corporate gym membership
Company values
- Product is paramount
- Set the pace
- Solve for scale
- Communicate with candor
- Responsible growth
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Founders
Kevin Guo
(CEO)Studied Computer Science and Math at Stanford. Was a Venture Associate at Mithril Capital Management. Co-founded Kiwi, an AI company, in 2014. Co-founded Hive in 2017.
Dmitriy Karpman
(CTO)Background in Computer Science and Philosophy. Graduated from Stanford and joined Google as a Software Engineering Intern. Co-founded Kiwi. Is a Research Assistant at Stanford.
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