Senior Staff Software Developer, Sama
Frontend
Secure AI & ML training data labeling platform
Job no longer available
Secure AI & ML training data labeling platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate and advance computer vision AI development by providing the most accurate and scalable data pipeline.
Role
Who you are
- Proven ability to communicate with non-technical stakeholders
- 7+ Years of experience in web development, with a focus on front-end
- 3+ Years in an architectural building and scaling complex systems role
- Experience with back-end architecture in designing APIs
- Strong experience with Angular, React, Vue, or Svelte
- Experience with RxJS and reactive programming
- Can design scalable, testable state-driven applications
Desirable
- 10+ years of experience in web development of front-end and back-end systems
- 5+years of experience with building and scaling complex systems
- Expert in Angular
- Expert in RxJS and reactive programming
What the job involves
- In this role you will be one of the leading developers at the company, defining the technical vision for most of our Web applications and overseeing, with significant technical rigor, that multiple teams follow your lead with respect to state-of-the art software development practices
- You will be expected to generate architectural designs, mentor more junior engineers, discuss with other senior level developers on broad and strategic technical initiatives, as well as contributing high-quality code to power our very refined annotation products
- Managing mixed responsibilities between high-level thinking and low-level coding prowess will allow you to showcase all of your abilities and allow you to progress within the company
- Defining and socializing the top level front-end architectural and technical decisions at the company
- Constantly research new front-end technologies and be able to inform the rest of the team about why and when they can be used for the benefit of our products
- Owning the front-end application architecture, and defining appropriate technology
- Contribute by writing and reviewing code related to front-end applications to the company
- Communicate successfully all concepts and guidelines to the development team
- Provide technical guidance and coaching to developers and engineers
- Interacting with multiple front-end teams on building, scaling and refactoring the application
- Interacting with full-stack senior developers to lead company-wide initiatives
- Help other developers and our product team scope uncertain high-level technical requirements for future products
- Oversee progress of development team to ensure consistency with initial design
Our take
Sama, formerly known as Samasource, provides AI training data (extremely large datasets used to teach Machine Learning models) for companies in the fields of e-commerce, communications, media, med-tech, agriculture, robotics and autonomous transport.
It was started as a non-profit to source talent and uplift the livelihoods of people in less wealthy areas of the globe, particularly in East Africa. However, the company transitioned to a for-profit model in 2019. This ethical and egalitarian approach to AI training has won Sama plenty of goodwill and business to boot, with customers including Google, Walmart, Ford, Microsoft and NASA on board.
Since rebranding as Sama and promoting former COO Wendy Gonzales to CEO, a new focus has been put on developing further solutions, which will allow entry into new industries, widening its already impressive customer base.
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Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2021
$70m
SERIES B
Nov 2019
$14.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $84.8m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health and retirement plans
- Competitive salary with bonus
- Generous vacation, paid holidays and sabbatical
- Fitness stipend and phone reimbursement
- Professional development budget and support
- Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Wendy Gonzalez
(CEO)Having spent almost 10 years at EY and Capgemini Consulting, Wendy Worked at Level 3 Communications, GCI, and Cycle30. They joined Sama in 2015 as Senior VP and MD, and currently serve as CEO.
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