Senior Software Engineer, Hiya
SDE
£52-98k
Offers Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office (151 Wardour Street, London)
Phone call security software
Job no longer available
Phone call security software
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
£52-98k
Offers Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office (151 Wardour Street, London)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To modernize voice with trust, identity, and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in backend engineering; ideally including low-level languages, streaming APIs and media pipelines
- A desire to own design and architecture end to end
- A philosophy of iteration and continuous improvement
- Understanding customer needs first and providing solutions primarily based on that
- Excellent communication and self-organization skills including working within and with other remote teams
- BSc or MS in a relevant field; 4+ years of relevant work experience
- Experience with the previously listed technologies or similar alternatives, and a strong desire and interest to learn the ones you may not be familiar with
- Proficient at collaborating and communicating with both local and remote team members in English
- The person in this role must embody Hiya’s key values of: Serving our customers, Doing rather than observing, Improving ourselves and our business, Owning and holding ourselves accountable for success, and Leading by showing up with a POV, engaging in discussion, listening respectfully to others opinions and committing to decisions
- You will have a fast start if you have experience with:
- Rust
- TypeScript
- Cloud environments (GCP)
- Kubernetes
- Postgres
What the job involves
- This position is part of the Audio Intelligence team at Hiya, who works on building security solutions for audio and speech leveraging AI and Deep Learning
- Some of our products and models include for example AI Voice Deepfake Detection or Voice Authentication, which are served via API for developers to build on top of (you can check our documentation here) in use cases like contact center operations, communications platforms or media fact checking
- The Senior Software Engineer is an Individual Contributor (IC) position whose main responsibility is to continuously evolve the architecture of our SaaS platform composed of an external REST API, a web console and different demos and integrations, including the design of new services and flows involving CRUD operations, audio streaming and model inference
- This position will collaborate with colleagues in Engineering and R&D on the implementation, operation and maintenance of the platform
- Build and maintain REST/gRPC backend services using Rust and Typescript
- Build and maintain frontend services using SvelteKit
- Design and maintain relational databases using Postgres
- Write unit/integration/E2E/stress tests using Rust, Typescript and Python
- Write and maintain API documentation using OpenAPI and Docusaurus
- Build CI pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Containerize services using Docker and deploy them to a K8s cluster
- Debug in staging and production environments using GCP tools
- Mentor and guide junior engineers in the team
- Reports to: Director of Product
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Combining data analysis with machine learning, the Hiya platform helps businesses and individuals field calls and block spam numbers from calling them. Saving businesses time and potential security breaches, the company aims to resolidify trust in business calls, especially from unidentified numbers.
Founded in 2016, Hiya claims that in 2022, spam calls were up by more than 30% and that spam and fraud callers are becoming more sophisticated. With tech advances in cybercrime, the opposite is true, too. Hiya use AI to fight the tech used by scammers, its most recent product is a personalised AI that analyses personal data and learns from the calls an individual takes and hangs up. This innovation will help Hiya stand out in a competitive security marketplace, though one that is mostly focused on internet safety and company data breaches. Hiya has the potential to reach a far larger client base than just businesses, and this key difference has helped it raise $18 million in funding so far.
Of course, cybercrime changes with the times, and Hiya will have to continue innovating into the future to keep up with radical shifts in the way AI is used to scam individuals. With a 2025 launch of an AI assistant designed to screen deep-fake scam calls, it seems to be doing so.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2023
$4.7m
EARLY VC
Jul 2017
$18m
SERIES A
Total funding: $22.7m
Company benefits
- Stock Options
- 100% Covered Medical, Dental and Vision
- 401K Program
- Vacation Package
- Paid Parental Leave
- Commuter Benefits
- Employer Covered Long-term Disability and Life Insurance
- Employee Learning and Development Budget
- Charitable Matching
Company HQ
Pike Place Market, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Alex Algard
(Founder & CEO)Previously Founder at Ekata, Whitepages, Co-Founder at CarDomain Network and Analyst at Goldman Sachs.
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