Cloud Backend Engineer, Radar
RFID and computer vision for retail stores
Job no longer available
RFID and computer vision for retail stores
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help stores find inventory more easily than ever before.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have a holistic perspective, capable of navigating the breadth of the product, delving into various topics, and injecting fresh ideas into different areas
- This position requires a profound grasp of cloud-related technologies, management platforms, and networking
- You have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or another technical field or equivalent practical experience
- You have the expertise in one or more software languages including Go, Python or Java
- You have a minimum of 5+ years of relevant work experience; technically contributing to projects for core system design, REST, gRPC APIs, scale and performance tuning for cloud apps
- You have previous experience writing software, designing APIs, adhering to the 12 factor app, database designs, logging patterns etc
- You have a solid system architecture background, understanding design patterns, HA patterns, load balance and scale in building a SaaS platform which utilizes micro-services/distributed systems architecture
- You are familiar with major cloud infrastructure providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure, cloud VM orchestration, and cloud networking rules
- You have a deep understanding of message queues, pub/ sub, database scaling, memory caches, and API gateways and writing software using these backend services
- You understand the big picture and discern its high-level details
- You have a "You build it - You deploy it - You own it and Shift-Left" mindset
- You are able to easily grasp new cutting-edge technologies, as well as evaluate and test out alternatives
- You can quickly read, understand and explain technical topics to the team as well as senior management
Desirable
- You have excellent analytical, problem-solving, organizational, communication and interpersonal skills
- You have solid system design concepts, experience in production and large-scale deployments, tuning performance parameters for a very large scale
- You have production expertise in any one of the modern stack Java, Kotlin or Go
- You have an in-depth understanding of micro services architectures, technological familiarity with public/private/hybrid cloud, Openstack, GCE, Kubernetes, and AWS
- You have experience building API's/services:
- Using MQ's - RabbitMQ, Kafka, NATS etc
- Using cache like Redis to improve the performance of the platform
- That scales to millions of users in a cloud environment like private cloud, GCP, AWS, Azure, etc
- You have built out solutions with interfaces to Vault and Consul for secret and configuration management
- You have previous experience with network management systems and their FCAPS related aspects
- You are familiar with networking, WIFI, RFID and other protocols
What the job involves
- We're seeking a Cloud Engineer to collaborate with on our Cloud Software project, presenting an exciting opportunity to develop innovative services
- As a Cloud Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in our rapid release cycles, necessitating hands-on development
- The cloud team at RADAR is responsible for building the plumbing in the cloud infrastructure that makes the cloud services deployment simple and fast
- It also includes aspects of large-scale system design, networking, security, configuration and automatic VM orchestration and many more areas
- Design multiple layers of the application including devops cloud-native tooling, application and backing services
- Write code for cloud related project duties, providing as-needed hands-on technical support
- Develop reliable, readable and maintainable code and test cases
- Make decisions on cloud platform characteristics, architecture and content
- Jump into any and every area of work to help resolve issues
- Manage your own project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
Our take
Devised after its founder, Forbes 30 Under 30 2022 listed Spencer Hewett spent an excruciating amount of time waiting in line at Victoria’s Secret, RADAR is a computer vision and RFID company helping accelerate retail store stock searches.
Utilizing the developments in computer vision and radio frequency identification, RADAR automates retail store processes, providing stockroom searches with speed and location accuracy. Stores can manage inventory more efficiently through automated inventory counts and more accurate in-store stock replenishment. Ultimately, RADAR aims to eliminate checkout lines altogether.
RADAR’s product not only helps practically and logistically, but gathers data that can help retail companies measure customer-product interactions, providing key insights into their customers' behavior. The substantial funding awarded to RADAR so far is down to how many layers of company processes its tool benefits. RADAR’s 2023 rounds of funding will be used to attract more customers and speed up its product development.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2022
$15m
LATE VC
Mar 2019
$16m
SEED
Total funding: $31m
Company HQ
Tribeca, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Spencer Hewett
(CEO)Named on the 2022 "30 Under 30" list. Co-founded Bazaarboy and is the founder of Skip. Thiel Fellow of the The Thiel Foundation.
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