The ideal candidate for this role revels in data, sourcing it, manipulating it, processing it in different ways, and making it available. You have experience creating and consuming APIs, and with database structure for various content types. Experience with building machine learning algorithms is a plus. You know your field but are curious about other areas and are interested to jump in on new areas, like build tools or deployment automation.

This is an individual contributor role designed for someone who can handle big projects, but on this early-stage team you will have a big voice across the engineering team.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities & Duties)

Partner closely with the product and design groups to bring the product vision to life.

Research and execute architecture decisions, including API design, services structuring and data flow management.

Build highly performant systems with well structured and maintainable code

Help put tools, processes and standards in place to ensure that our code maintains the quality we are proud of.

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What We Seek (Skills & Qualifications)

5+ years of professional web development experience using Python.

Experience with multiple types of data stores, including traditional RDBMS, document stores, search indexes (SOLR or Lucene), nice to have.

Strong experiences designing APIs and implementing APIs provided by various vendors.

Experience with machine learning and natural language processing a plus.

Talent for managing multiple projects simultaneously, from concept to completion

Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)