Senior Backend Engineer (Image Processing)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Image Processing): You will develop and maintain hirify.global’s main transformation services in Ruby on Rails, optimizing system workload, time, and cost. Focus on developing custom transformations and contributing to the ongoing development of our Deep Learning platform.

Location: Remote

Company

hirify.global is the image and video technology platform that enables the world’s most engaging brands to deliver transformative visual experiences at global scale.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain hirify.global’s main transformation services in Ruby on Rails.
• Optimize system workload, time, and cost.
• Develop custom transformations using building blocks from the research group, open source, or commercial solutions.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of our Deep Learning platform, mainly in Python.
• Maintain and update image codecs and filters, including open source, commercial, and homegrown codecs (Mainly C++)
• Provide 2nd tier support for our code and participate in team and company-wide on-call rotations.

Requirements

• We’re looking for a highly skilled backend engineer with at least 8 years of experience or exceptional talent.
• You should be self-propelled, independent, sharp, smart and knowledgeable.
• Experience in image or video processing is a strong advantage.
• Expertise in cloud technologies (preferably AWS) and data-driven development or analyzing large data sets using tools like Kibana/DataDog is highly valued.