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Scope
As a Sr. Software Engineer, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the team with the following responsibilities: Design, architect, implement and help operate the Machine Learning platform; develop and gain insight into the application architecture; distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence implementation; observe inefficiencies, in cost and reliability, of existing processes; research alternative solutions using custom or existing open-source technologies; design replacement processes and components; implement processes, extend and configure open-source components; work with the ML DevOps and Support teams to operate the ML platform by helping implement DevOps best practices of in-house and open-source components; ensure smooth operation via monitoring and alerting facilities; work with the ML data scientists to apply the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems for both model building and serving.
What You'll Do
- Develop quality software according to clean code principles and Blue Yonder standards and write effective test cases.
- Autonomously pull issues from the team backlog or support other team members with their issues as appropriate.
- Participate in team activities such as backlog grooming, planning, daily stand‑ups, and retrospectives.
- Understand basic functional and technical requirements of software components.
- Contribute to designs of individual stories.
- Continuously improve yourself and the code you produce.
- Incorporate aspects of information security in your own work.
- Develop an understanding of how changes in the team’s deliverables affect other teams and the customer.
- Autonomously plan and perform routine changes.
- Independently resolve incidents around a limited set of service functions.
- Independently handle service requests.
- Realize that resource consumption directly affects SaaS profitability.
Secondary Duties And Responsibilities
- Autonomously perform small refactorings to improve local software quality.
- Be aware of the team's continuous integration pipeline and fix broken builds as necessary.
- Actively provide feedback during code reviews.
- Onboard new members to the team and help develop junior engineers.
- Assist associates with implementation and operational issues.
- Clearly communicate impediments and actively seek support from team members to overcome obstacles.
- Participate in implementing performance benchmark tests.
- Understand company and team visions and the problem domain your team works on.
- Demonstrate problem solving and innovation ability.
What We Are Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science is required, master’s is preferred.
- 4+ years of software engineering experience building production software.
- Experience in frontend technologies, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.
- Good working knowledge of Kubernetes and other virtualized execution technologies.
- 1+ years of experience working on at least one cloud environment, GCP preferred.
- 4+ years of Python programming experience with excellent understanding of object‑oriented design & patterns.
- 3+ years of experience building REST APIs.
- 1+ years of experience working with Kafka and its integration with cloud services.
- 3+ years of Linux scripting experience.
- 1+ years working with traditional and new relational SQL DBMS; Hive and BigQuery preferred.
- 1+ years of experience with NoSQL databases; Cassandra, HBase, Redis.
- Strong CS fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
- Should have experience working with CI/CD, automated unit, and integration testing.
- Some experience with streaming frameworks, preferably Beam on Samza/Flink/DataFlow.
- Familiarity with modern Big Data computing platforms such as Hadoop and Spark.
- Exposure to one or more of: Pandas, NumPy, sklearn, Keras, TensorFlow, Jupyter, Matplotlib, etc.
- Good to have supply‑chain domain knowledge.
Our Values
If you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite us. They are what drive our success – and the success of our customers. Does your heart beat like ours? Find out here: Core Values
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Software Development