Whilst the company is based in Cape Town, they do offer remote work on a permanent basis.
We are looking for candidates who have a real passion for technology, who are constantly exploring, learning and improving their skills. We’re a hyper growth company looking for smart, innovative, autonomous, and creative people to join us!
We think big, and follow through!
This position reports to Engineering Team Lead (Machine Learning)
The high level
- Work with a fire-hose 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
Your qualifications & experience
- Computer Science degree (alternatively a degree in a related field with work experience as a software engineer)
- Strong Mathematical or Statistical experience
- 3 years experience applying machine learning to real-world problems, preferably in a commercial environment
- Testing and monitoring techniques on performance and model quality
- Analytical mind and business acumen
- Resource management and optimization techniques
Areas of mastery
- Machine learning pipelines
- Python, Tensorflow, scikit-learn, and/or Panda’s experience
Bonus Points
- MSc (or even PhD)
- Automated deployments, scaling, and resource management
- BigQuery, Elasticsearch and/or MySQL
- Docker, Kubernetes
- Event driven architecture (PubSub/Kafka)
- Experience with e-commerce based applications
The skills we need
- Be creative
- Be flexible
- Be data oriented
- Take pride in your work
- Comfortable using open source technologies
Desired Skills:
- Machine learning
- AI
- Python