Senior Software Engineer - Backend, Machine Learning

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, C++, C Programming, SQL, Cloud computing, Scala Programming, Machine learning techniques, Data science techniques, MATLAB Programming, PyTorch, TensorFlow, R Programming

Job Description

Backend Engineers work in crossfunctional squads on a variety of technical challenges. We solve challenges including distributed compute grids, workflow engines, systems integrations, SDKs, and web applications that let our customers harness Machine Learning to drive their business processes.

As a Senior Backend Engineer you will:

• collaborate with Product and other engineers to define, design, and build platform and web applications
• contribute across the entire software development lifecycle, including requirements definition, design, development, testing, deployment, and operations..
• be a technical leader in your squad, helping to drive technical decisions, prioritizations, and tradeoffs
• mentor / guide other engineersand help improve technical and other practices within the squad
• You will do so in an environment where squads own their own domains and drive their roadmaps bottomup.

We believe in bottomup autonomy with topdown alignment. We look for people who want to contribute their ideas to help us continue to get better technically and in other ways. We also look for people who have a strong sense of team and want to collaborate effectively and support each other.

This is an exciting time for Hyperscience’s product, business and people!

You will have the opportunity to influence and deliver on a bold vision for transforming the way organizations model and execute their business processes, and there will be many opportunities for growth along the way.

Key responsibilities:

• Collaborate crossfunctionally with Product Managers, Designers, and other engineers, including Machine Learning, FrontEnd/Full Stack, DevOps, and QA
• Leverage your knowledge to design, build, and deliver scalable and resilient software
• Drive technical decisions, prioritizations, and tradeoffs within the squad
• Creatively solve functional challenges with the Product team even when the initial answer is not fully defined
• Creatively solve technical challenges in the face of competing tradeoffs
• Design easytouse interfaces that will be leveraged by other developers, including APIs for 3rdparty developers
• Ensure product quality and code quality by writing automated tests and performing thorough code reviews and design reviews

Qualifications & experience required:

• Minimum 5 years of experience solving backend software engineering challenges
• Experience in building enterprisegrade systems and scalable distributed systems
• Proven technical leadership abilities
• Proven mentorship and ownership abilities
• Strong ability to reason about engineering approaches to a problem
• Strong software architecture and design experience
• Comfortable learning and implementing new technologies
• Experience with database systems, including SQL and/or NoSQL solutions
• Track record of shipping highquality code
• Experience in an Agile and DevOps environment
• #LiRemote

What you will achieve:

Within your first 30 days:

• You will get acquainted and eventually be fully comfortable navigating the full codebase, the technology stack, the development processes and org structure within the company.
• You will learn the product and will make your first significant, userimpacting contributions to one of our products.
• You will get to know our ML domain, codebase, and practical applications.

Within your first quarter and beyond:

• You will be an integral part of the team and a driven, focused selfstarter who can navigate a certain amount of ambiguity, and who is not afraid to take a sizable chunk of functionality, analyze it, break it down, implement it and then assume ownership and responsibility over it.
• You will be taking an active role in discussions about possible solutions, different approaches, API designs and more.