Staff Software Engineer, Lily AI
Product Attributes Platform
$140-220k
More information about location
Product discovery platform for brands
Open for applications
Product discovery platform for brands
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$140-220k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower retailers and brands by bridging the gap between brand-speak and customer-speak.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Proficiency in Java, J2EE, REST, Web Services and experience optimizing various data storages, including relational and document databases
- Deep understanding of microservice architectures, containers, messaging/queuing systems, stream processing systems (like Kinesis, Kafka)
- Experience scaling backend architectures and monitoring production health and costs
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS
- Strong product sense, with the ability to make well-reasoned tradeoffs between speed and quality to create an enduring platform
- Exceptional attention to detail and analytical skills, with the ability to detect and diagnose anomalies, errors, or issues
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate in an energetic cross-functional group
- Ability to mentor and elevate the skills of your team members
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer, you will design and develop scalable platforms and services focused on driving business impact, while raising the bar for technical excellence.
- You will be part of a team that is in charge of developing the core product attributes platform, tackling challenges of scale, data integrations, and building a performant backend infrastructure that delivers exceptional user experiences
- Design, architect and implement APIs and platform services that are reliable, performant, and scalable to handle large volumes of data and customers
- Engage in architectural discussions, influence the roadmap, and take ownership of key projects and initiatives
- Technically lead, mentor and provide guidance to team members to optimize current designs, data models, workflows, and APIs
- Work cross-functionally with engineering leaders, product managers, ML scientists and other stakeholders to build end-to-end solutions
- Champion best practices in design, coding, testing, monitoring and documentation
- Maintain high operational awareness of our entire platform, lead and participate in assessing and resolving incidents
Our take
Lily AI is a product discovery platform that utilizes purpose-built AI for retail. It helps retailers to gain a deeper understanding of their customers and explores the emotional context behind retail purchases.
Lily AI recognizes the importance of emotions in buying decisions, particularly how shoppers consider whether or not an item of clothing will suit their body shape. For example, Lily AI can recognize if a woman exclusively purchases midi length, A-line dresses, and will combine AI and emotional intelligence to determine how that shopper perceives their body shape. The AI technology will then recommend similar items and tailor search results to the individual.
The company argues that its competitors treat retail as a numbers game, and simply use AI to drive sales. Lily AI differentiates itself by putting emotional context into the situation, creating specially curated shopping experiences for consumers of its clients, which include enterprises such as Bloomingdale's, The Gap, and thredUP. Funds raised by the company will enable further expansion into mid-market retail eCommerce brands across home, beauty, and fashion.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2024
$20m
SERIES B
Dec 2023
$12.4m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $71.9m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health and benefits package
- Paid vacation time and company holidays
- Flexible working arrangements
- Wellness Program
- Remote Team Building
- Diverse, Inclusive and Socially Responsible
Company values
- Empathize with the customer
- Dream big, then make it happen
- Be scrappy
- Challenge with care
- Roll up your sleeves & get stuff done
- Keep it simple
- Be a product owner
- Raise the bar
- Be right a lot
- Deep dive and be curious, and fail fast
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
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Leadership
Purva Gupta
(CEO)Tory Burch Fellow at the Tory Burch foundation. Founder of the Venture Creation Program at Yale and former project manager at UNICEF. MBA in Finance at the Indian School of Business.
Former Senior Software Engineer at Box. Previously Mobile Engineer at Pocket Gems and a Software Developer at Yahoo. Former Software Design Engineer at Texas Instruments. Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
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