Senior Backend Engineer - Ruby on Rails

A Series A NYC based startup, who have developed an online platform that enables its users to design digital picture frames utilizing AI are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer, working with Ruby on Rails.  

The Company are post Series A ($15m in funding) and have experienced over 300% year on year growth.  The product applies state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning technology to thousands of photos every day to automatically sort and curate users' libraries. 

Role and Responsibilities

• Develop the backend system, which powers a network of thousands of picture frames 
• Utilize machine learning and computer vision techniques applied to the photo database 
• Identify and prioritize problems and opportunities in the tech stack 
• Work across mobile and web application 
• Build features in the internal API's 

Skills and Experience 

• 4+ years experience working with Ruby on Rails
• Experience with ActiveRecord and ActionController 
• Experience with AWS, including EC2, S3 
• Experience with Python too would be ideal 
• Machine Learning frameworks i.e. Caffe 
• Experience with Computer vision, OpenCV