Senior Software Developer
Senior software developer at Taiv, a YC-backed Winnipeg startup whose computer-vision TV boxes turn business TV in bars and restaurants into a context-aware ad platform. The role focuses on Android, web (React/TypeScript), and backend work, with exposure to C/C++, OpenCV, and custom hardware, plus mentoring junior devs.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- CA
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Track record of owning systems end to end, not just closing tickets
- Understanding of industry standard software development cycles and best practices
- Hardworking and a fast learner
- Loves startups and wants their work to have an impact
- Located in Winnipeg or willing to relocate
- Able to reliably commute to the office
Nice to have
- Bachelor's Degree
- Strong skills in JSX/TSX (React and React Native)
- Strong TypeScript skills
- Android development skills
- C/C++ skills
- Adept with Unix
- Experience with OpenCV & computer vision
- Experience building and operating IoT fleets
- Experience mentoring developers or leading a small team
- Entrepreneurially minded
- Experience working with major cloud providers
- Strong understanding of performance-critical video and machine learning pipelines
Full description
Who We Are:
Taiv is a fast-growing tech startup located in Winnipeg, Canada. Taiv uses AI to make business TV more fun, engaging, profitable, and easier to manage, starting with bars and restaurants. We've built proprietary tech that uses computer vision to watch live TV and improve the content with contextually-aware commercials, content, and games. Our tech also automates the manual AV tasks that venues have to do every day, to make bar management easier, standardized, and more profitable. We're venture-capital backed and graduated from Y Combinator, the world's top tech accelerator, in winter 2020. Program alumni include Airbnb, Instacart, DoorDash, etc. ().
Who We're Looking For:
We're looking for senior software developers who work hard and want to get in early and grow with the company. We develop hardware, firmware, web, android, and ML. Your role will be mostly focused on Android, web, and backend, but we're a small team and everyone wears a lot of hats. There's always room to grow in whichever area you enjoy the most! You'll have lots of responsibility and ownership of the projects that you work on and be integral in solving our toughest problems and building systems that will scale to millions. You'll also mentor less experienced developers on the team, pairing on hard problems and giving the kind of feedback that makes the next pull request better.
Our Tech:
We have really cool tech. We build our own hardware and use a heuristics-based computer vision approach for classification. We're the first company in the world that can detect TV commercials accurately. Our detection algorithm runs on our custom-designed TV box that we manufacture. We have thousands of boxes deployed in over 5,000 venues and are installing more every day. We also have several web apps built in React that are used by our customers, as well as for internal operations.
You will be a great fit if you have strong skills in these areas:
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JSX/TSX (React and React Native)
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TypeScript
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Android development
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C/C++
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OpenCV
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Computer Vision
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Adept with Unix
You don't need to know all of these, but what you don't know, be ready to learn quickly!
Requirements:
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5+ years of professional software development experience
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A track record of owning systems end to end, not just closing tickets
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Understanding of industry standard software development cycles and best practices