Venice CA

We are looking for an entrepreneurial Software Engineer in Venice, CA that is comfortable in a rapidly changing, early stage start-up environment. There may be an opportunity for the right candidate to start part-time or as a consultant and transition to full time in 2-4 months.

Our ideal candidate is ready to help build an exciting product in the AI / Conversational Commerce space, and is a hands-on engineer with a deep understanding of building and scaling software.

Responsibilities

• Own the development of our SaaS platform - including optimization of existing systems, building of complex software systems that are scalable and performant, and leading technical strategy
• Work closely with Product, Data Science, and Sales to define project specifications and build technical requirements
• Serve as the Engineering leader, owner, and operator
• Stay up to date with Engineering best practices and technologies

Required Experience and Skills:

• 5-7 years of software development experience, preferably in a rapidly changing company where performance and scalability were paramount
• Success leading the architecture and launch of high-performance customer-facing applications using prototypes and customer input as guidelines
• Professional experience using Python and well-established Python web frameworks
• Strong understanding of programming paradigms including procedural, functional, and object-oriented
• Experience with a broad set of common programming languages and building software at all levels
• Proven ability to build relationships and work positively with individuals at all levels and ability to understand key concepts and communicate with technical staff and lines of business
• B.S. or M.S in Computer Science or 10+ years professional experience in Engineering

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Experience working with a variety of databases (MySQL, Postgres, Mongo) and scaling them
• Implementing and managing cluster-compute frameworks (e.g. - Spark)
• Experience with Docker and deploying software to production environments
• Professional experience with JavaScript
• Success building a messaging app or projects related to conversational commerce, call centers, live chat, marketing / sales automation, or bots

Please send resume and cover letter to: [email protected].

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