Our client is a leading South African online retailer and a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people to join them. They offer market-related benefits, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

We are looking for talented developers to build out the best damn big data team in Africa.

Note that this is not a data science position and that it requires building large-scale, production-grade software systems that applies machine learning in practice, including the training of machine learning models.

You will:

– Work with a firehose of data
– Build state-of-the-art statistical models
– Touch all aspects of the business
– Brainstorm new ideas and concepts
– Work with teammates on design, and code reviews
– Build real time systems that integrate with the rest of our stack

We expect you to:

– Be creative
– Be flexible
– Use the data, Luke
– And take pride in your work

Minimum requirements

– Computer Science degree (alternatively a degree in a related field with work experience as a software engineer)
– Strong Mathematical or Statistical experience

Standard requirements

– Python experience
– Linux experience
– Commercial software experience
– Experience with Hadoop/Spark/R
– Machine Learning / Data Mining / Big Data experience
– MSc (or even PhD) in a related field

Your friendly recruiter to assist you is: Londi Ndlela

To apply for this position, please use the apply option on this job portal. For any other queries, please feel free to email me on: (email address) and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

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