Overview

Associate Back-End Engineer at Encord

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About Encord

At Encord, we're building the AI infrastructure of the future. One of the biggest challenges AI companies face today is data quality. The success of any AI application relies heavily on the quality of its training data, yet for most teams, this crucial step is both the most costly and time-consuming. We’re here to change that.

As former computer scientists, physicists, and quants, we’ve experienced firsthand how a lack of tools to prepare quality training data impedes progress in building AI. We believe AI is at a stage similar to the early days of computing or the internet—where the potential is clear, but the surrounding tools and processes are still catching up. That's why we started Encord.

We are a talented and ambitious team of 100+, working at the cutting edge of computer vision and deep learning. Backed by $30M in Series B funding from top investors like CRV and Y Combinator, we’re one of the fastest-growing companies in our space. We have big plans ahead and are looking to expand our Engineering team to help us in building a better product for our customers.

What To Expect

• High performing team: You'll join a small team that has built a product customers love and consistently rate as the best in the market. Team members are veterans of both Big Tech and successful startups.
• Impact: Your work will have direct and tangible impact for customers and influence the trajectory of the company.
• End-to-end ownership: You will own your projects from product and architectural decisions through deployment, monitoring and measuring impact on users. You will work across the stack and are expected to take initiative and seek improvements.
• Autonomy and collaboration: You will often work autonomously, while also collaborating with a lean, high-trust team to solve challenging problems together.
• Scale and simplicity: Tackle complex domains and scale with simple, effective solutions.

About You

• Are experienced: You have developed and maintained multiple systems from scratch or led major changes to existing systems. You understand trade-offs involved in building reliable, performant software at speed.
• Seek high impact: You want your work to have tangible outcomes and not just move metrics by small increments.
• Are a builder: You enjoy building across the stack and are comfortable moving across domains when needed. You solve problems from first principles and learn quickly.
• Are comfortable with uncertainty: You tackle problems without predefined definitions and welcome autonomy to decide as you go.
• Are a team player: You contribute your best and help others contribute theirs. You enjoy lifting teammates as well as the product.

Tech Stack

Tech stack: We are technology agnostic. We currently use Python and TypeScript across our codebase. Prior experience is appreciated but not required. Below is a detailed breakdown of technologies we use.

• Backend: Python
• Frontend: TypeScript and React
• Kubernetes for deployment
• GCP for underlying infrastructure
• Machine Learning: PyTorch, CUDA, Ray

What We Offer

• Competitive salary, commission and equity in a hyper growth business.
• Strong in-person culture: most of our team is in the office 3+ days a week.
• Room to grow into anything you choose — a year ago we were 50 people, now we're 100+. We'll be growing insanely fast over the next 24 months and you'll have the opportunities for growth.
• 25 days annual leave a year + public holidays.

Encord offers a unique opportunity to be part of a startup with a clear mission and vision. You will get to explore and build services enterprise AI use cases across many different industry verticals such as healthcare, surveillance, retail, agriculture and many more.

Our work is at the cutting edge of computer vision and deep learning, which also includes working on solving unsolved problems within those fields.