Technical Lead, TPE

About Deep Sentinel:
Deep Sentinel is an emerging start-up building a next-generation technology for providing security in our homes. Using the most cutting-edge form of machine learning (Deep Learning), Deep Sentinel turning our cutting-edge cameras into an intelligent crime prediction system. We
are a tight-knit, fast-paced, high-energy start-up team.
We put AI behind a home camera and prevent crime while it’s in progress. Please visit our website:
https://www.deepsentinel.com/

About this Job:
We are seeking awesome experienced (preferably 5+ years) Technical Lead (Senior software engineer with 2-4 direct reports) to join our small team in building a truly next-generation security system utilizing all the killer bells and whistles: deep learning, on-edge embedded AI system, hybrid-cloud, big data, etc. We are a tight-knit, fast-paced, high energy start-up team.
This Technical Lead position is based in Taipei and focuses on development of software that runs on our embedded hub system.

Key skills include: Python hands-on-coding in an at-scale production product, team leadership experience, startup-type get-it-done experience in new areas that expand your horizons. Embedded software would definitely be a plus.

Our ideal candidate has a passion for code, a love for a fail-fast (and work freaking hard) engineering environment, and a hunger to learn and grow. We prefer raw-intelligence over syntax-excellence, ownership over silos. And coffee over water.

Responsibilities
Code development and tech leadership:

• Developing/Maintaining a robust and high performance on-edge embedded AI system (our Hub). This includes business logic, MQTT device communication, MQTT cloud communication, data synchronization
• Setting and maintaining development standards for your team and working with your team to ensure the whole team is operating on the same page
• Participating in engineering leadership and architecture reviews, story estimation and prioritization processes

Team Leadership:

• Leading a small (2-4 person) team in Taiwan who are responsible for writing all code for our hub systems
• Collaborating with other teams: frontend, mobile developers, hardware engineers, data scientists to polish the existing awesomeness and build new features

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in Software Development, or have significant open-source contribution in related fields
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or EE
• Very strong with either Python or C/C++.
• A good team worker and have excellent English communication skills.
• Familiar with network architecture and protocol (e.g.: TCP, UDP, HTTP, websocket)
• Advanced proficiency in Object Oriented Design
• The Start-Up mentality

Other great features:

• Experience on complex distributed cloud applications
• Experience working with hardware partners (ODM)
• Knowledge of computer vision or deep learning
• Knowledge of multimedia streaming protocols (e.g.: RTP, RTSP, WebRTC)