Staff Software Engineer - Recommendations

Medium
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Job Description

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Recommendations team that will work on building advanced recommendation systems that help users to navigate the vast library of quality content on Medium. As an engineer on the recommendations team, you'll work closely with PMs and ML engineers to create the best version of Medium for every user.

What will you do?

  • Work on a large-scale recommendation system that uses machine learning in its core.
  • Design and build scalable and performant backend services. (We use primarily Golang and Python).
  • Create data pipelines and high performance online serving infrastructure.
  • Design end to end experiments that optimize for reader satisfaction.

Who are you?

  • You have 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • You have proven experience building server-side software
  • You believe in the craft of software engineering, but are pragmatic with engineering tradeoffs.
  • You are passionate about using technology to help Medium readers discover the most relevant content.
  • You are familiar with services architecture and understand its trade-offs.
  • You have experience with AWS, Kafka, Redis, and relational database systems.

We'd particularly love it if

  • You have built services that serve a significant amount of traffic.
  • You are proficient in Golang, Python, and/or Spark.

Company Info.

Medium

Medium is an American online publishing platform developed by Evan Williams and launched in August 2012. It is owned by A Medium Corporation. The platform is an example of social journalism, having a hybrid collection of amateur and professional people and publications, or exclusive blogs or publishers on Medium, and is regularly regarded as a blog host.

  • Industry
    Information Technology
  • No. of Employees
    85
  • Location
    San Francisco, CA, USA
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