Staff Software Engineer, Otter.ai
Backend, Infrastructure
$120-250k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
AI notetaker, transcription & insights
Open for applications
AI notetaker, transcription & insights
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$120-250k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create smarter tools that free people up to do their best work.
Role
Who you are
- VHas 10+ years of experience in developing and architecting large-scale web services, preferably with exposure to supporting AI systems
- Holds a Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field
- Possesses expertise in databases, distributed systems, and backend performance measurement and optimization
- Has expert proficiency in Python or other programming languages such as Go, Java, or C++
- Has deep experience with web frameworks like Django and is familiar with MySQL, Redis, Elastic Search, Kafka, and Cassandra
- Demonstrates a solid understanding of database internals like transactions and indexes, with experience in database schema design
- Has hands-on experience working on AWS
- Is eager to take ownership and drive impact, owning projects from conception to implementation
- Brings substantial production server experience or equivalent expertise
- Strong communication skills, genuine curiosity, and meticulous attention to detail
Desirable
- A good understanding of HTTP and networking principles
- Familiarity with operating systems, particularly Linux
What the job involves
- We're seeking a talented individual to lead the development, deployment, and management of our web services and infrastructure. As a member of our engineering team, you'll collaborate with colleagues in technology, product management, and beyond, contributing to innovative solutions that serve the needs of end-user professionals and enterprise clients across various verticals
- Utilize your hands-on experience in developing technology using Python to drive impactful projects
- Demonstrate your expertise in building robust business logic with web frameworks such as Django and integrating them seamlessly with MySQL
- Leverage your proficiency in Nginx, Kafka, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, and big data platforms to architect scalable solutions
- Write reusable, testable, and efficient code that powers our web services and infrastructure
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, ensuring alignment and understanding throughout the development process
Our take
Otter specifically thought of business professionals who are running from one meeting to the next, while juggling multiple projects with various teams. The company's technology integrates with platforms like Zoom, providing a way to record meetings and convert speech to text in real-time. It then streamlines communications for smarter, more collaborative, and more productive meetings—the first use of conversational AI to turn meetings into an actionable workflow.
This allows people to benefit from captioning, as well as teams to have a written record of the conversation, which can be edited and shared. Its AI can also highlight and comment on important sections of a meeting transcript, and automatically tag action items. In addition to businesses, students and universities – including UCLA, Tulane, and Western Kentucky – use the tool to increase accessibility.
The platform is used in more than 230 countries and has transcribed over 100 million meetings. Otter is far from alone in the audio transcription market, estimated to be worth nearly $41.89 billion by 2030, with Google’s free transcription tool posing a potential threat, as well as competitors such as Rev.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
27% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2021
$10m
CONVERTIBLE
Feb 2021
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $73m
Company benefits
- Compensation: With highly competitive salaries and equity option packages, everyone's an owner here.
- Hybrid Working: You can mix and match working from our Mountain View or San Francisco office, plus a couple days from home.
- Social Gatherings: Quarterly gatherings in the Bay Area for some team real fun and authentic connection.
- Health and Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, and wellness benefits that start the first day you do.
- PTO: Start with a minimum of 15 days of paid time off, plus up to 18 weeks for maternity leave and 8 weeks for paternity leave.
- 401(k): Plans to help meet your retirement goals because we care about your future.
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Sam Liang
(Co-Founder & CEO)Earned a PhD from Stanford and then joined Cisco as a Senior Software Engineer. Worked as a Tech Lead at Google and is a member of the Forbes Technology Council.
Yun Fu
(Co-Founder & CTO)Has a PhD in Computer Science from Duke. Worked as Yahoo's Principal Software Engineer and was Head of Infrastructure at Particle Media.
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