Tech Lead, Staff Backend Engineer at Clarifai

Job Description

As a Tech Lead, Staff Backend Engineer, you collaborate with your colleagues on the backend team to set a technical vision for our AI systems, as well as train and mentor engineers to develop their skills and technical understanding. You architect our AI web services in addition to improving existing features, reliability, flexibility, and scalability as usage increases.

We are looking for someone comfortable in several programming languages and excited about building new features in Go and Python. You should care about software design and have built systems that other people love to use and work with, and have experience building and scaling distributed, highly-available systems.

Requirements
3-4+ years as a tech lead and architect for complex backend projects
A minimum of 7+ year of backend software development experience (i.e. C++, Python, Java, Golang, C#, etc.)
Understanding of microservices architecture and best practices
Strong background in building scalable and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
Past experience in building applications such as data pipelines, data caching/storage systems, and/or RPC services
Experience with performance tuning
Self driven, communicative, and fun to work with
Agile experience
Great to Have
Experience with Golang or Python is a huge plus
Previous experience with developing machine learning infrastructure
Deep understanding of any SQL/NoSQL DB.
Experience working in a tech company/industry. AI experience is a plus.
Experience working on a distributed team