System1 is looking for a curious and innovative, methodical problem solver and expert performance optimizer Senior Back End Developer to join our engineering team. In this role, you will play a key part in defining and building one of our new and promising e-commerce products. The ideal candidate is a team player who can design and execute simple and elegant solutions to big problems around large datasets and distributed systems, focusing on performance and scale. They can manipulate and leverage datasets to extract valuable insights coming from millions of users and external APIs and data feeds.
The Role You Will Have
- Build new distributed platforms from ground up, which focus on B2C retail and eCommerce products and continuously optimize to meet aggressive goals.
- Design and implement algorithms to efficiently process, analyze, and serve massive datasets to enable product recommendations and user-intent detection.
- Build, operate, and optimize large web-based systems and platforms that interface directly with data science real-time scoring models and support various optimization algorithms that are multi-objective in nature.
- Process user engagement data and product feeds and APIs in real-time/near real-time and integrate with ML models that power the products.
What You Will Bring
- 5+ years of combined experience in a backend or full stack development.
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalent, Master's degree a plus
- Well versed with Python and Python libraries/frameworks is required.
- Passion for leveraging technology to solve problems and maximize productivity and thrive in collaborative teams.
- Should be comfortable writing HTML/CSS and proficient in JavaScript.
- Experience building scalable and reliable products in the cloud.
- Experience with designing, implementing, and using RESTful APIs.
- Experience with Information Retrieval algorithms and recommender systems is desirable.
- Exposure to Elasticsearch, Apache Solr and SEO.
What We Have To Offer
- Competitive Salary with 401k Safe Harbor Matching
- Unlimited Paid Sick Time, Competitive PTO and Benefits package
- Free Uber/Lyft to and from work every day!
- Collegial and collaborative team with highly intelligent and motivated coworkers
- Cross-team lunches and demos to foster learning
- Daily catered meals and fully stocked kitchen
- Bi-weekly happy hour at various bars, restaurants, and venues across Los
- Angeles
- Bi-weekly onsite happy hour
- Catered dinner on Tuesdays and Thursdays
- Weekly fitness class with private trainer: high intensity training, yoga, beach
- volleyball, beach soccer, ultimate frisbee
- Company parties and outings: Skyzone indoor skydiving, Medieval Times,
- Karaoke, etc.
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