Remote Sr. Software Engineer, Full Stack

Summary

Avala is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong software engineering foundations and experience in full-stack development to contribute to their product and work closely with the machine learning team. The company values transparency, quality, equality, results, constant improvement, and improving lives and livelihoods.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering foundations and a desire to apply those skills to make other engineers more productive
• BS/MS in Computer Science or the equivalent in experience, with evidence of exceptional ability
• Strong understanding of JavaScript (ES6+), Python
• Experience building modern web applications using React/Redux or similar component-based libraries
• UI and graphic design sensibilities
• Interest in machine learning, computer vision or neural networks
• Must be willing to constantly learn new things
• Passionate about joining a small team and building a company

Responsibilities

• Connect our machine learning code to databases, and the databases to our front-end
• Work on the platform of tools and infrastructure of whatever the machine learning team needs to be effective
• Coordinate required hardware resources with the team, managing cluster hardware to maintain high availability
• Work directly with the machine learning team to understand requirements and priorities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with large computer clusters
• Knowledge of machine learning, computer vision, or neural networks is a plus
• You've worked at a startup before
• A history of working on side/hobby projects and contributing to open source projects is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive salary ($80k-165k)
• Clear path for career growth
• San Francisco Bay area
• Company laptop
• Unlimited time off
• Leveling up opportunities
• Team bonding events
• Stock options
• Remote friendly
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible parental leave
• Flex hours