About Scandit
At Scandit, we are developing smart data capture technology that enables smart devices to capture data from barcodes, IDs, text, and objects. Our newest product, ShelfView, is a machine learning-powered platform for retail that enables real-time shelf visibility and empowers more intelligent and efficient store operations. With our scalable data capture technology via robots and mobile devices, retailers are on track to save tens of millions in operating expenses and in turn generate tens of million more in value for their customers. For more information, please check our product website.
Job Opportunity
We are now looking for a new colleague to join the ShelfView team and work on providing a scalable backend to power visual product recognition. You will be responsible for evolving our backend to scale product data ingestion and provide low latency recognition. If these challenges sound interesting to you, we’d love to hear from you! Please note, this role can be based remotely in the following countries: Switzerland, Finland, Poland, Italy, Spain, Germany, and the UK.
About The Role
As a Senior Backend/Cloud Engineer, you will be helping us to build a stable and scalable backend for visual product recognition. This includes making critical technological choices, designing and implementing data stores and pipelines, and optimizing low latency recognition services. Additionally, you'll guide and mentor other talented engineers within our team.
What You Will Do
- Designing and managing product data ingestion, storage, processing
- Creating and maintaining data pipelines
- Optimizing computer vision model serving in high latency / high throughput as well as low latency scenarios
- Designing and maintaining external and internal service APIs
- Mentoring other engineers in the team
- Proactively driving initiatives and projects, prioritizing tasks and resources as necessary
Our Tech Stack
- Python / Django
- Postgres
- PubSub
- Kubernetes
- Airflow
- GCP / AWS
- Gitlab
Who You Are
- You are an experienced software developer with 7+ years of professional experience as a backend engineer shipping software in the cloud
- You are fluent in multiple languages, Python and Golang being your strongest
- As a strong plus, you have worked on a scalable machine learning model powered product in an industry setting
What We Offer
- A highly skilled team and a fun environment where you can put your enthusiasm for cutting-edge technologies to use
- Excellent office infrastructure, optimized for hybrid working in Zurich, Warsaw, Tampere, and London
- Excellent support for remote work across the UK, France, Italy, Spain, and Germany
- Innovation hackathons
- People-first culture
- Global team outings
- Festive/end of year all company celebrations
- Your birthday off
- An attractive individual equity plan in a high growth company
- Do good and give back with 2 impact days where you are able to give time to one of our trusted nonprofit partners
- Specific benefits related to the location you are joining
Who We Are
Could your code give superpowers? Whether enabling delivery drivers to make quicker deliveries, matching a patient with their medication or allowing retailers to make store operations more efficient, our technology automates workflows and provides actionable insights to help businesses in a variety of industries. This means we have no shortage of technical challenges for engineers like you. Join us, as we continue to expand, grow and innovate, and help take Scandit to the next level.