Description:
About the role: Reporting to our Lead Engineer, you will work alongside Faethm’s AI Systems Engineers to solve interesting technical challenges and implement our product roadmap. To give you a sense of our work, we have designed and implemented systems like:
- Large scale on-demand GPU clusters with Machine Learning / NLP pipelines to extract billions of data points from job ads within a few hours
- High-concurrency, low-latency analytics environment across 7 geographic regions to serve enterprise customers all over the world
- Libraries and APIs for bleeding edge transformer-based NLP model pipelines
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be responsible for:
- Build RESTful APIs and micro-services for compute heavy and data intensive Machine Learning models
- Design and build highly scalable python backends
- Support the consumption of Faethm’s APIs and data outputs by other teams and organisations
- Drive code quality by facilitating code reviews within the team and ensuring that our engineering practices are followed in relation to testing, security and monitoring
- Work closely with Product Managers to understand the product, needs of the customer and our business so that you can help shape it
To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:
- 5+ years of experience in a software engineering role
- Expertise in Python, including at least one web application framework like FastAPI, Django, or Flask
- Proficient in SQL and/or NoSQL database technologies
- Previous experience with micro-services, containerization, and orchestration tools like Kubernetes
- Handled multiple projects in a production environment
- Understanding of distributed systems and scalability
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related fields
- Understanding of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Big data Concepts