We are looking for a Mid-Senior Scala backend engineer for Findify, a daughter company to Namaste Technologies. As part of our engineering team, you will be responsible for building our product, an advanced machine learning algorithm within search personalisation for e-commerce. As demand for our product continues to increase, we are on a journey to grow the team substantially in 2020. We’d love for you to join us.
About the role:
You will be part of a small team that moves fast and iterates. We do weekly sprints, code reviews, testing, and put a lot of emphasis on code style, cleanliness and robustness. You will get to work with amazing engineers specializing in machine learning and distributed systems.
Your responsibilities include:
Managing and improving Findify’s data pipelines – a crucial responsibility for us as Findify collects millions of data points every day to feed our machine learning algorithms
Enhancing some of the critical components of our system to successfully integrate our customers’ products and improve our search capabilities
Actively contributing to the overall design of our infrastructure and the application of our product vision
About you:
You are a creative problem-solver with passion for programming and building scalable architectures.
You are:
Initiative-taking; you are self-motivated, a doer, and can drive projects from start to finish
A team-player; you are comfortable working with different styles and believe (like us) that together we achieve much more than alone
Driven; you are used to working hard to achieve a goal you care about and running several projects in parallel
A great communicator; you are comfortable communicating in English both written and oral, including leading meetings, selling your ideas and storytelling
You have:
A BSc or MSc in Computer Science or related technical discipline
At least 3 years of Scala work experience
Experience with relational database systems such as PostgreSQL
Familiarity with Akka Stream, Akka HTTP or Flink
Experience with Git
Working knowledge with Linux/Unix
We’d be extra impressed if you also have:
Experience with AWS / key-value databases such as Cassandra / data-mining / machine learning / search frameworks such as Lucene / e-commerce platforms
Dev-ops skills
Experience in working in/with remote teams
Experience in working in agile/lean methodologies
A side project or blog that showcases your passion
Location: remote. Flexible within timezone CET +/-2
We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better products we build and the better we are able to serve our customers. Women and other minorities under-represented in tech are strongly encouraged to apply.
ABSOLUTELY NO HEAD-HUNTERS OR AGENCIES, PLEASE
