Principal Engineer, Backend

August 28

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Otter.ai

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Award-winning voice-first team collaboration app for meetings and conversations. Otter Voice Meeting Notes.

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💰 $50M Series B on 2021-02

Description

• Drive the development of cutting-edge web services that support next-gen speech recognition solutions, directly influencing how professionals and enterprises interact with voice technology. • Play a key role in building infrastructure that serves a diverse range of industries, impacting businesses across healthcare, finance, education, and more. • Design and deploy backend systems that ensure seamless, reliable performance, enhancing productivity and efficiency for end-users across various professional domains. • Lead cross-functional teams, collaborating with product management and technology experts, to deliver robust and scalable backend solutions that align with strategic goals. • Contribute to the long-term scalability and reliability of our web services, ensuring the infrastructure can meet the growing demands of enterprise clients globally. • Take on a leadership role within the engineering team, mentoring junior engineers and helping to define the technical direction of the company.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science from a top school, or have substantial production server experience (or equivalent) • 10+ years of experience in developing/architecting large scale systems • Hands-on coding and development in Python, C++, Java and other languages • Experience with platforms such as Nginx, Kafka, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, and other scalable systems • Familiar with DevOps platforms such as Ansible, Salt, Docker, Kubernetes and AWS • Strong ability to write and debug high performance code that is reusable, scalable, testable and efficient • Leadership experience in architecting and leading large scale engineering projects across multiple teams • Ability to engineer systems designed for high growth and rapid scale • Ability to communicate effectively with peers in design, product management, data insights, and engineering to respond to requirements and diagnose problems