Responsibilities:

• Implement new features to help improve the recommendation engine

• Scale the recommendation engine to handle growth

• Handle storage of user actions

• Integrate between different components that depend on the recommendation engine

• Improve the a/b testing framework

• Implement a/b tests to increase revenue

• DevOps for a real-time recommendation system

• DevOps for background processing system

Qualifications:

• Required:

• Four years of Scala experience

• Four years working with SQL and relational databases

• Four years Linux experience

• Two years working with cloud services, ideally in AWS

• Self-motivated learner / self-teaching

• Self-starter who can maintain a team-centered outlook

• Desirable:

• Experience with Play! and Akka frameworks

• Experience developing for machine learning

• Python

• Real-time streaming with Kinesis, Kafka or similar libraries

• Experience with Hadoop ecosystem, e.g. Spark, Hive, or Presto/Athena

• Experience with CI/Deployment tools, especially Opsworks, Chef, and/or Bamboo