Senior Backend Engineer, ISEE
Office located in Cambridge, MA
Autonomous driving solutions
Open for applications
Autonomous driving solutions
21-100 employees
Open for applications
Office located in Cambridge, MA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create a future where autonomous machines can thrive alongside humans, seamlessly and safely integrating into any environment.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has at least 5 years of relevant full-time work experience
- Bachelor/Master Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Experience with building production applications with Python
- Experience working with multiple types of databases like PostgresSQL or DynamoDB
- Experience with AWS (Amazon Web Services)
- Proficiency with Git or comparable distributed version control tool
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey trade-offs and choices made
- Ability to write robust and easily-maintainable code
- Ability to troubleshoot issues that arise and bring them to quick resolution
- Passionate about self-driving vehicles and web development
Desirable
- Experience with designing and implementing event-based architectures
- Experience with Kubernetes or modern cloud infrastructure practices
- Experience building systems that interact with connected devices (like autonomous vehicles)
- Experience with handling a very high throughput of data
What the job involves
- Designing and implementing APIs for both customer-facing and internal web applications used by the entire company
- Coordinating among multiple stakeholder teams to identify needs and collect requirements for design
- Rapidly prototyping and iterating upon designs to release widely-adopted services
- Creating efficient services to read and write data
- Serving as the central point of contact and primary owner of one or more services
- Forecasting development timelines and communicating status to leadership and stakeholders
- Leading prioritization efforts for feature requests, improvements, and bug fixes
- Thoroughly testing code before deployment and applying development best practices
- Ensuring applications offer maximum uptime and availability
Our take
Autonomous vehicles are big business at the moment, with companies such as Tesla, Google owned Waymo and Argo all vying to create the technologies that will transform the way we travel. ISEE finds its place in this thriving sector by specialising in autonomous trucks and using AI and deep learning technologies to create self-driving trucks that can learn and use the machine equivalent of common sense.
Speed, efficiency and safety are essential within the logistics and shipping industry. Rather than trying to program a reaction to an infinite number of possible events, Isee is creating trucks that will learn and react autonomously, designing a computer system that drives like a human.
Following very strong revenue growth in 2022, ISEE has closed a Series B funding round which is being used to hire additional talent and further the development of its self-driving yard trucks. As the first, and only, company to achieve fully-autonomous operations there's certainly an exciting future ahead for ISEE.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2022
$40m
SERIES B
Nov 2019
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $55m
Company benefits
- Healthcare and Basics
- Work/Life Balance and PTO
- Supportive Team
- Professional Growth
- Flexible Work Environment
- Forum for Open Discussions
Company values
- Be Customer-Obsessed - We focus on the needs of our customers. We listen to what they need and build technology that is useful for them. We move fast to approach the market and win customer’s trust
- Be Humanistic - We care about people. We are patient, empathetic, and seek to understand the thinking and needs of others. We believe in people’s potential and help each other to grow
- Take Ownership - We're accountable for our deliverables and own both the problem and the solution. We believe in owning our mistakes, talking about failure, and holding each other accountable
- Be Inclusive - Our strength is in our differences, not our similarities. We collaborate by celebrating different feelings and perspectives
- Strive for Excellence - For us, the journey is just as important as the results. We care that every feature, line of code, decision, slide deck, and relationship is of the highest quality
- Be Humble - Creating the extraordinary takes everyone, not the heroics of an individual. We value the strength in humility and understand that no one person can be successful without the efforts of another
- Be Resilient and Grow - We’re solving a once-in-a-lifetime, tough tech problem. It’s work that requires resilience to continually push ourselves in unknown and challenging directions and grow beyond our limits both individually and as a team
- Have a Beginner's Mindset - We value curiosity and don't believe in letting bias or what we already know hold us back. We approach each challenge with fresh eyes and an appetite to continuously adapt and reinvent.
- Prioritize Safety - Though we're nimble and practical, we never cut corners, and always maximize safety
- Enjoy Work and Have Fun - Work can be fulfilling, fun, and enjoyable. We value being part of a team that makes a difference and finds purpose and joy in our work
Company HQ
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
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Leadership
Yibiao Zhao
(CEO)Yibiao completed their PhD at UCLA studying computer vision and his Postdoc at MIT studying cognitive robots. They are a pioneer of engineering common sense for visual understanding and cognitive robots.
Debbie Yu
(Board Member)Prior to Isee, Debbie co-founded environmental data solutions company, Spatial Intelligence. Their experience is in investment having been an Angel investor and advisor prior.
Chris Baker
(Chief Scientist)Chris completed their PhD at MIT in cognitive science, going on to complete their Postdoc and following research within the department.
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