Senior Software Engineer, Ideogram
Generative media tools
Open for applications
Generative media tools
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make professional-quality design accessible to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years developing and shipping large-scale backend systems with proven ability to manage complexity through thoughtful abstractions and scalable design
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
- Experience designing APIs and database schemas that are extensible, performant, and account for real-world read/write workloads
- Track record of writing well-instrumented, reliable code with appropriate metrics, monitoring, and proactive error handling
- Ability to break down open-ended, technically complex problems into actionable solutions with clear milestones
- Experience scoping projects, identifying technical constraints, estimating timelines, and keeping teams on track
- Interested in raising the quality bar through mentorship and constructive code reviews
- Deep sense of ownership - proactively identifies opportunities, suggests improvements, and acts on them
- Thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with a strong bias toward action
- Asks great questions, thinks from first principles, and seeks out resources to deepen understanding
- Our backend infrastructure is primarily written in Python and makes use of the following technologies (experience with them is helpful but not strictly required):
- OpenAPI & gRPC
- Kubernetes
- Redis & Memcached
- Elasticsearch
- GCP, Google Bigtable, Google BigQuery, Google Spanner, Google Pub/Sub
- Docker & Terraform
- Cloudflare
What the job involves
- We're seeking an experienced backend engineer to join our team as a Senior Software Engineer. You’ll collaborate with exceptional engineers to build cutting-edge AI design experiences that delight millions of users
- Moving fast and shipping to production daily, alongside a strong, supportive team that values pragmatic engineering
- Tackling complex technical challenges collaboratively, from scaling distributed systems to enabling new generative media experiences
- Shaping our product roadmap and influencing technical direction, standards and team culture
Our take
With text-to-image software well and truly in the public conscience, Ideogram has launched a platform to support creativity, while capitalising on the popularity of AI image creation services.
Its generative AI platform requires a prompt and rendering style (think anime, fantasy, or cinematic) from which it creates a high quality image for the user. As with other platforms of its type, the images tend to be slightly flawed but interesting, and it appears that almost anything can be created.
Of course, there is a downside to launching into a market that is under such a strong spotlight, especially as many artists raise concerns over their work being used to train image creation AI without their consent. For its part, Ideogram claims to operate with a "high standard for trust and safety", utilizing a $22.3M CAD funding round to grow its team and footprint.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2024
$80m
SERIES A
Aug 2023
$16.5m
SEED
Total funding: $96.5m
Company HQ
Financial District, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Mohammad Norouzi
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google for 7 years.
William Chan
(Co-Founder & CTO)Spent 7 years at Google, ultimately as a Google Brain Staff Research Scientist.
Chitwan Saharia
(Co-Founder)Spent 3 years at Google, ultimately as a Senior Research Scientist. Prior to this, was a Research Assistant at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms.
Jonathan Ho
(Co-Founder)Previously a Research Scientist for Google and for OpenAI.
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