The Lead on the Principal Engineer, Machine Learning team is responsible for leading the technical direction of the Verity project as well as assisting with the prioritization and planning of required engineering work.  This role is responsible for architecting the entire Verity platform. Specifically, the role is responsible for ensuring the team’s designs are of high quality, cost-effective, and highly scalable while handling millions of requests per minute and terabytes of data daily.   These systems include all aspects of the Verity technology stacks including Databricks Spark Streaming, DynamoDB, Java-based web service, AWS, Kafka, Redis in addition to interfacing with Python-based Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing software services. 

This role is critical to the success of the Verity product due to its high complexity and scale. The person in this role must be strong in software architecture, data engineering, and AWS.

****Please note we are working from home until September 2021

Responsibilities

• System Design - System design and support of Machine Learning technology stacks including Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing 
• Technical direction - Ensure all components are designed with high scalability and fault tolerance to serve millions of requests per minute.
• Cost management - Design cost-efficient systems while refactoring legacy systems to reduce cost
• Technical Execution - Develop and maintain Verity’s big data infrastructure to support Customer and  KPI Reporting using technologies such as Kafka, Airflow, and Spark.  
• Quality Assurance - Conduct design and code reviews 
• Continuous Learning - Keep abreast of developments in the field externally and develop any necessary internal training for the team
• Project and Stakeholder Management - Drive planning and prioritization meetings with Verity stakeholders and cross-functional teams
• Demonstrate Leadership - Mentor junior and senior engineers on the Machine Engineering Team

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience (Java/Scala/Python)
• 5+ years of working with large scale distributed systems with platforms such as AWS, Spark, and Kafka
• Experience mentoring junior developers
• Experience working in greenfield environments where solutions aren’t necessarily readily available in market
• Ability to design highly scalable machine learning systems in the cloud
• Deep knowledge of probability, statistics, and algorithms
• Expert ability to write robust code in Python, Java, or Scala
• Mentorship of Machine Learning Engineers 
• Ability to design systems to support large amounts of data providing near-real-time insights to customer usage
• Expert level understanding of complicated data structures 
• Great communication skills to communicate with both technical and non-technical cross-functional team members and stakeholders
• Project management and excellent prioritization skills
• Understanding of software architecture, data structures, and data modeling as well as how to strategically plan for key commercial goals
• The ability to make technical decisions influence stakeholders
• Enjoy growing and mentoring junior engineers
• Ability to rapidly and effectively change context throughout the day

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive health, vision and dental benefits
• Healthcare including 100% coverage for Employee + Spouse/family
• Dependent care FSA
• Employer-matched 401(k) plan
• Stock incentive program (role dependent)
• Paid parental leave
• Goodly - student loan contribution plan
• WFH monthly stipend
• Fitness reimbursement and wellness workshops
• Discounted Pet Health Program
• Flexible time off and work schedule
• Stocked kitchen & Everytable Smartfridge
• Dog-friendly HQ office - we love our fur babies!
• Incredible work/life balance with a collaborative and friendly work space
• GumGum Gives Back volunteering opportunities
• Team building lunches and events, and monthly company celebrations
• Virtual monthly team bonding events

Career & Development Focus

• Ongoing learning and development for education opportunities such as webinars, books, classes, relevant conferences and events
• Opportunities to pursue business related side projects and yearly Hackathon
• Highly encouraged to contribute to open source software, including our own open source software
• Environment of learning from peers, including meetups, presentations and blog posts
• Anniversary recognition and awards
• Opportunity to work with cutting edge technology
• Life Skills sessions - geared towards the whole life/ health / person
• Leadership Bites Dinner Series - connecting current and future GumGum leaders over great food and meaningful conversation
• Stride - our company council committee to share learnings, give updates and provide feedback to the company regarding initiatives and discussions around diversity, inclusion and equity. 

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