Senior Software Engineer (Python) – ML Infrastructure

Senior Software Engineer (Python) – ML Infrastructure – Venture Funded Start-up – Remote Working

Salary: €50,000 – €60,000 – + Bonus + Benefits

We are currently working with an early stage venture funded start-up. The organisation builds enterprise software for supervising and correcting ML systems in production.

That includes detecting data and concept drift, estimating performance loss and suggesting corrective actions as well as a dashboard that presents all these insights for business and technical users.

The goal is to ensure that ML systems keep adding value and that insights that can be extracted from ML systems are clearly communicated to business stakeholders. They want to make ML in production effortless to interact with and extract value from.

About The Role:

The client is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to architect and build a great product as their first employee.

You will be working closely with the founding team. Their expertise is in leveraging business information, exploiting data and prototyping data solutions.

The Senior Software Engineer expertise comes in to complement the team you will be responsible for product development from the software and data engineering side from designing engineering processes, brainstorming with the founders, through prototyping and first implementation to architectural choices and frameworks.

The Senior Software Engineer (Python) will have the ownership and the decision making power to shape everything that lies between product and research. As we organisation grows we expect you to grow with us. We envision your path may grow your position into VP of engineering.

Please do not apply for this role if you are not physically located in Europe, Africa or the Middle East (UTC-2 to UTC+3) or you are not fully willing to relocate immediately. This is a fully remote position, however we will be working with you very closely, so significant work hours overlap is necessary

Experience with early stage product is absolutely necessary. If you don’t have such experience please do not apply. Please bear in mind that this is not a web development position, while web development might be a small part of what you do, it is not going to be your main focus.

Responsibilities

• Integrate and productionize Data Drift detection and prediction algorithms
• Develop and deliver CI/CD, version control and testing frameworks
• Brainstorm new features and shape the product road map together with the founding team and clients
• Architect, design, and hands-on build the software
• Produce clean, well-documented and efficient code
• Handle automation, infrastructure and orchestration
• Help with implementing the product at clients and with clients on-boarding

Requirements

Basic

• You significantly contributed to building an early stage product
• You have experience working with data (such as ML systems, big data or building data heavy products like BI tools)
• Great communication skills in English – both oral and written
• You are extremely proactive, independent and comfortable with proposing new ideas – and holding your ground when you believe you are right.
• Strong experience with Python in back-end development, infrastructure or data engineering
• 5+ years working as a Software Engineer or in a similar role
• You live in or are willing and able to relocate to EU time zones

Bonus points

• You were the first engineer or the lead engineer in a venture funded startup
• Experience with data engineering tools and containerization
• Experience using system monitoring tools and automated testing frameworks
• Experience building enterprise grade software
• Significant experience with on-premise deployment and integration with enterprise IT systems.
• Basic familiarity with Machine Learning
• Masters degree in a STEM related field

Please do send across to me the most up to date copy of your CV to eobiechefu@welovesalt.com

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