Senior Software Engineer, Hivemapper
Platform
Decentralized map network using crypto-enabled dashcams
Open for applications
Decentralized map network using crypto-enabled dashcams
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
Hivemapper's mission is to make an accessible global map, built by all of us.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- Experience designing data models
- Systems engineering experience with real-time and distributed system architecture
- Experience building systems that process large volumes of data
- Experience or interest in using the following: AWS, Typescript, Node, Rust, MongoDB, Solana, Python, ECS, Kubernetes, Spark, Redis
- Experience shipping and supporting code running at scale
- You are always interested in new challenges and are comfortable learning new technologies
- We’re looking for engineers with a strong background or interest in building distributed systems, data-intensive applications, and product and ML infrastructure
What the job involves
- Architecting, building, and training other teams on high performance infrastructure
- Working closely with supply, growth, and other engineering teams to deliver data-intensive platform solutions
- Integrating our core systems with a complex decentralized, quantitative-heavy web3 system
- Creating core abstractions for data that can scale to tens of thousands of users and 100s of millions of square kilometers across time
- Building auditable and observable systems that can robustly handle billions of video frames each day
- Helping to foster engineering excellence across backend development
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
When Hivemapper launched in 2015, it focused on creating 3D maps for drone pilots, but in the last few years its set its sights on a much more ambitious target – to decentralize how maps are produced.
It’s aiming to do this by way of a dashcam and community owned, blockchain-based mapping network. Essentially, drivers purchase the dashcam, which mines and earns them Hivemapper’s own cryptocurrency, HONEY, in exchange for building maps while they drive.
Considering that Google Maps, the world’s most popular navigation system, is slow to update its street views - especially in remote areas - Hivemapper could be onto something with it close-to-real-time network. It remains too early to tell if Hivemapper’s coins will become truly valuable in time, but the considerable funds the company has raised from crypto-focussed investors surely displays its strong potential.
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2022
$18m
SERIES A
Nov 2015
$2.9m
SEED
Total funding: $20.9m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental and vision benefits plus FSA
- Family leave
- 401(k) program
- Unlimited Flex PTO
- Commuter benefits
- Paid lunch
Company values
- Have empathy and candor – We are thoughtful of other perspectives and we give others the benefit of the doubt. We speak our minds but always with respect and intellectual honesty. We understand that listening unlocks more than talking, and we strive to be good listeners. We support others to be successful in their journeys.
- Go a bit over the speed limit – We are ambitious. We are constantly asking ourselves “what is my next level?”. We believe that it is better to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission, yet we won’t be reckless.
- Own the problem – We do what it takes to deliver. We herd the cats to drive our projects forward. We strive to articulate a vision or define the problem and rally others to solve it.
- Always be inventing – We are iterative. We are resilient. We are curious. We don’t fear the messiness.
- Be bold – Nobody ever won by thinking and acting small.
- Wear the customer’s shoes – We get into the customer’s mindset. We go to the customer to learn how they work. We observe and listen.
- Be proud of what you ship – We care about our work. We are making something that we want to use and are proud of recommending.
Company HQ
San Francisco, CA
Articles
Founders
Ariel Seidman
(CEO)Previously co-founded and was CEO of brand intelligence SaaS Gigwalk. Spent five years as Director of Product Management (Search & Maps) at Yahoo!, and five years as a Principal Product Manager at Oracle's Siebel.
Evan Moss
(CTO)Previously worked in 3D Data & Product Engineering at Scale AI, following two year spells as a Senior Software Engineer at EarthX, then Minerva Project.
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