Lead Software Engineer

Summary

Join Data Society Group as a Lead Software Engineer and play a key role in building impactful AI-powered tools. You will design, build, and release services and products focused on learning systems and data platforms. Collaborate with the product team to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions. Lead by example, contributing to engineering best practices and exploring cutting-edge technologies. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience in developing systems for complex distributed systems and expertise in areas like microservices, cloud computing, and machine learning. Full-stack development experience is required, with a focus on back-end technologies like Python, Java, or Typescript. The role involves working in a fast-paced environment and requires excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience developing systems/software for complex distributed systems, management products, or business applications
• Expertise and experience in at least two of these: Large-scale microservices and distributed systems, Cloud computing and storage systems, Information Retrieval/Search Systems, Machine learning for Search and/or Recommender systems
• Full-stack development experience in: Back-end technologies like Python (ideally), Java, Typescript, Spring, NodeJS/Bun
• Full-stack development experience in: Front-end technologies like React, Angular, SwiftUI (iOS), Kotlin (Android)
• Full-cycle development experience. You have planned and architected holistic solutions, and have experience of bringing products zero to one
• Experience with AI infrastructure and applications. Strong working knowledge and experience applying AI to an existing application or building AI native applications (including ability to articulate value/limitations, use evaluation tools to measure accuracy, and train/tune models)
• Experience with AI technologies (this might be Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, DialogFlow, SageMaker, Google Vertex AI, LangChain)
• BS/MS in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent years of experience
• Authorized to work in the US and resides within the continental United States

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and release key AI-powered services and products focused around learning systems and data platforms
• Implement durable, secure software solutions that will solve critical customer problems in a fast-paced environment
• Work directly with the product team to understand requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver practical, innovative solutions (with a mix of onshore and offshore resources)
• Deeply understand the business model to accelerate outcomes and deliver value by collaborating within and across teams
• Contribute to standards, patterns, and best practices that improve engineering capabilities in performance, security, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management
• Provide perspective on leading industry trends, recommendations on new and emerging technologies, technology prototypes, patent proposals, etc
• Practice and evangelize continuous learning, experimenting, and applying cutting-edge technology and software paradigms to solve customer problems

Preferred Qualifications

• Team player well-respected for strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, complex technical environment
• Excellent communication skills. Communicates clearly, succinctly, and persuasively to all levels of employees, customers, and management (including executives)
• "Self-starter" attitude and the ability to make decisions independently
• Flexible and resilient
• Travel 3-4 times per year to company in-person events