Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning

Summary

Join ShopBack, a leading shopping, rewards, and payments platform in Asia-Pacific, as a Machine Learning Engineer to enhance products and improve the shopping experience for users and merchants. You will leverage machine learning in areas such as recommendations, personalization, risk, fraud detection, and search. As a subject matter expert in a specific ML domain, you will navigate ambiguous problem definitions, understand critical business and product metrics, and foster a fast-paced, high-iteration experimental culture. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners and stakeholders to achieve optimal outcomes. ShopBack offers competitive compensation, career progression paths, a work-from-anywhere benefit, and a collaborative culture where feedback is valued.

Requirements

• Significant prior success as a Machine Learning Engineer working on challenging problems at scale
• 3+ years of industrial ML experience, with expertise in modeling and statistical modeling
• Good understanding of data collection, aggregation, analysis, visualization, productionisation, and monitoring of ML products - aka MLOps
• Ability to develop ML Products with good engineering practice and mindset
• Strong desire to solve tough problems with scientific rigour at scale
• An understanding of the value derived from getting results early and iterating
• Education in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Operations Research, Statistics, Econometrics or Mathematics
• Strong skills in Python and machine learning and deep learning libraries (Pytorch and Tensorflow)
• Passion to answer Product/Engineering questions with data

Responsibilities

• Utilize Machine Learning: Enhance our products and improve the shopping experience for both users and merchants. This includes leveraging machine learning in areas such as recommendations, personalization, risk, fraud detection, search, and more
• Subject Matter Expertise: Be a subject matter expert in a specific ML domain while maintaining a solid understanding of product and user challenges
• Handle Ambiguity: Navigate and resolve ambiguous problem definitions effectively with or without dedicated Product Manager support
• Metrics Driven: Understand critical business and product metrics, apply the right tools and technologies, and drive efforts to positively influence those metrics
• Experimentation Culture: Foster a fast-paced, high-iteration experimental culture to test and refine solutions quickly
• Collaboration: Work effectively with cross-functional partners and stakeholders to set and achieve optimal outcomes
• Curious: Interest in exploring and learning the latest technologies in the industry

Benefits

• Career progression paths and opportunities to take on greater challenges that help you realise your ambitions
• Be part of a winning team on a journey to global scale
• Competitive compensation based on your performance
• Candid, open, and collaborative culture where feedback is valued, for everyone to grow and improve every day
• Work-From-Anywhere benefit to enable you to thrive personally and professionally