Come join a team of industry and science leaders to achieve a vision of empowering innovation through state-of-the-art artificial intelligence leveraging multiple cloud technologies. We are addressing exciting challenges for our customers, at the intersection of AI/ML and cutting-edge cloud infrastructure.

We are in search of a Backend Software Engineer who will bring a depth of knowledge on basic algorithms and data structures. As a Backend Software Engineer, on any given day you might be architecting new features for our customers, refactoring existing code to be more scalable, and seeing changes through to completion in a live environment.

What you will do

• Design and create services and system architecture for your projects, and contribute and provide feedback to other team members.
• Help improve our code quality through writing unit tests, automation and performing code reviews.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of backend software engineers, project managers and system administrators.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to our technology, algorithms and products.
• Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution.
• Dive into difficult problems and successfully deliver results on schedule.

Your qualifications are

• 7+ years of recent hands-on coding and software design.
• Bachelor’s degree or more in Computer Science or a related field.
• A track record of projects completed on time – you are a flawless executor, not a procrastinator.
• You find satisfaction in a job well done and want to solve head-scratching challenges.
• Experience with all phases of the software development life cycle, best practices, and Agile software development.
• Experience using Django.
• Solid OOP and software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that’s extensible, reusable, and meets desired architectural objectives.
• Strong familiarity with web server technologies including Nginx, Apache, and J2EE.
• Experience with Java or Ruby, and the willingness to learn new technologies (experience with other object-oriented languages is okay too, but our code is Java, Ruby, and Scala, so you should be able to get up-to-speed on at least one of them quickly.
• Establish backend software engineer best practices.
• Work autonomously, are excited by new technologies, and will never back down from the challenges of scale.
• Experience with Linux/Unix and scripting languages like Python, Perl, shell scripting, etc.
• Knowledge of database systems and NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB.
• Experience deploying machine learning models is a plus.