Senior Backend Engineer
About Us:
Caper builds intelligent shopping carts - powered by deep learning and computer vision - to detect and identify items (with cameras mounted in the cart) as they are added to the basket. Caper costs less than 1% of Amazon Go's infrastructure, and it is a plug-and-play integration for stores. Caper is the fastest growing retail automation technology company, with already launched pilots and a rapidly expanding customer base. E-commerce is only 8% of total retail, and Caper is innovating the other 92% of the untapped potential.
Caper is currently backed by First Round Capital, Y Combinator, and top executives from Instacart, Plated, Albertsons and Walmart.
We’re a team of incredibly motivated individuals looking to put a dent in the retail industry. We are looking for a founding employee who will add to our talented technical team. You’ll be directly working under the CTO and the opportunity offers plenty of room for rapid internal growth.
Personality Preferences:
- Open-minded and eager to learn
- Highly organized
- Extreme ownership of projects & assignments
- Hard working
Technical Requirements:
- Strong experience with micro-service architecture
- Strong system and code architecture design capability
- Good understanding of design patterns, data structures, algorithms, software optimization
- Ruby, Java or Python experience is strongly preferred. Other similar frameworks and languages are also acceptable
- Well-versed in basic server engineering including scaling, caching, distributed system and etc.
- Either Android experience or web development experience is preferred
- Recommendation system experience is preferred
Key responsibilities:
- Involve in system and architecture design with project lead and CTO
- Build backend services as well as frontend features based on feature needs
- Communicate with business team/clients to add new features
- Stay challenged, happy and fulfilled!
Salary: TBD depending on experience
Equity: 0.1% - 0.3%
Location: NYC -- Greenpoint, Brooklyn