What We Do

Taiv transforms awareness ads into performance marketing. Our computer vision algorithms are able to replace live TV commercials in bars and restaurants with targeted and measurable ads. We work with over 1,000 venues and many fortune-1000 advertisers like AbInBev, Coke, Pepsi, ESPN, and more.

Why It Matters?

Taiv makes businesses more fun, engaging, profitable, and easier to manage for patrons, business owners, and advertisers.

Our product is free for venue owners - we cover the cost of the hardware, install, and maintenance. They get to promote their own house advertisements, automate their TV systems, and access our streaming, trivia, and automation. We also give them control, for the first time ever, over which brands are allowed to advertise on their TVs. Whenever we run an ad, we share some of the revenue with the venue owner. We send a check to thousands of small businesses each month to help them generate incremental revenue.

Cool, But How Does It Work?

We partner with bars and install custom hardware, which attaches to their cable box and uses computer vision to detect commercials in real-time (more about that below). When it cuts to commercial break, we dynamically insert ads that are perfect for that environment. We're also able to measure sales results based on point-of-sale data to provide closed-loop attribution - a first in our industry.

Check it out:

• TechCrunch

• Demo video

We’re a 40-employee in-person team who genuinely enjoy working together. We look for smart, passionate, and driven people who want to build something amazing. We have a fun culture and strive to create an easy-going work environment. We’ve raised a Series A and are one of the fastest growing companies in Canada.

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. (www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies).

What We're Looking For:

We're looking for a full stack developer who works hard and wants 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.

Requirements:

• Experience designing, testing, building and deploying projects
• Hardworking & a fast learner
• Loves startups and wants their work to have an impact
• Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with OpenCV & computer vision
• Experience building scalable systems
• Strong multi-threaded Java skills
• Entrepreneurially minded

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 (and only) company in the world that can detect TV commercials accurately. Our detection algorithm runs on our custom-designed TV box that we manufacture in-house. We have thousands of boxes deployed across 850+ 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.

Our Stack:

• Android (Java, c, c++)
• OpenCV
• React / React Native
• Firebase
• Google Cloud Functions
• AWS (S3, Cloudfront)
• Bash
• Circleci
• Springboot (Java)

You don't need to know all of these, but what you don't know, be ready to learn quickly!

Skills:

• Android
• C
• C++
• React
• React Native
• TypeScript
• OpenCV
• Firebase
• Serverless
• Computer Vision
• Bash/Shell
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Job Details:

• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: $55,000.00-$65,000, plus stock options

Perks:

• Employee stock options
• 100% employer-covered Health Benefits
• Flex-time & unlimited paid vacation
• Gym membership
• Catered lunches 3x per week
• Dog-friendly office
• Hybrid work model

Schedule: Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate: Winnipeg, MB: can reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Diversity and Inclusion at Taiv:

We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion at Taiv. We pledge to never discriminate against any employee or job applicant because of race, colour, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or age.

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 (and only) company in the world that can detect TV commercials accurately.

Our detection algorithm runs on our custom-designed TV box that we manufacture in-house. We have hundreds of boxes deployed 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.

Our stack:

• Android (Java, c, c++)
• Opencv
• React / React Native
• Firebase
• Google Cloud Functions
• AWS (S3, Cloudfront)
• Bash
• Circleci

You don't need to know all of these, but what you don't know, be ready to learn quickly!