Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI at Recruiting From Scratch

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:

Recruiting from Scratch is a talent firm that focuses on placing the best candidate for our clients. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across North America, South America, and Europe to help them hire.

About our Client

Our client applies cutting-edge algorithms and composite AI solutions to provide a new approach for marketing data analytics. Unlike tools that only provide correlation, they provide true causation, giving organizations across sector and industry the ability to quantify the value of every marketing activity and maximize future marketing investments.

About the Role - Senior Software Engineer

They are hiring an experienced Senior Engineer to join our high-performing team. You'll lead the charge in designing, deploying, and managing scalable server-side applications using JavaScript and NodeJS.

Why join?

• You want to build something that is both technologically challenging and solves a real customer need. You want a role with major upside that tackles a massive market opportunity.
• You are a serial startup builder or want to earn growth stage experience before becoming a founder yourself. We have assembled a super team of leaders who have deep experience building and selling B2B marketing solutions that work.
• You want to work where you can take a big swing at building something big while maximizing your personal growth.

Why you might not be excited:

• If you only want to tell people
• You prefer company practices with 100% built out process for every little detail.
• You prefer static over dynamic. Projects, priorities, and roles will adapt to your skill set and your goals. Though we have real paying customers, and a playbook for growth, we proudly remain an early stage startup.

What you will do:

• Grow their AI and ML capabilities by contributing ideas and launching and completing new engineering projects.
• Partner across all teams including engineers, AI scientists, researchers, designers, and product managers to bring new features into production.
• Serve our customers by helping them unlock insights about their marketing efforts through our products.

How you will succeed:

• Primary skills

  • Python programming: Experience delivering production-ready python programs.
  • Relational databases: Experience in querying, designing and optimizing relational databases such as Postgres.
  • Software development lifecycle management: Experience owning projects end-to-end from scoping, designing, coding, release and continuous monitoring in production environment.
  • Capacity planning and management: Experience with profiling methods and scalability assessment.
  • Data processing: Experience with data preprocessing techniques such as cleaning, transformation, normalization, and feature extraction.

• Secondary skills

  • ELT pipeline: Experience with ELT pipeline and orchestration systems such as Airflow.
  • Database systems: Experience working with one or more non-SQL databases such as Druid, Elasticsearch and neo4j.
  • AWS: Experience deploying and managing applications on AWS.
  • Containerization and Virtualization: Proficiency in Docker and experience with container management and deployment.
  • Statistics and mathematics: Understanding of statistical concepts and methods such as statistical testing, regression analysis, time series analysis, and probability theory.

Compensation:

• Salary: $150,000—$180,000

Location:

Hybrid in San Francisco