Remote Artificial Intelligence + Data Science + Full Stack Jobs

HigherEducation.com partners with many of the most recognizable names in the online education industry to help them build their programs and expand student bases with our 75M annual site visitors. We also love to use cutting edge technologies to make developer life enjoyable and more productive.\n\nWe’re looking for an experienced, hands-on hybrid role of JavaScript Engineer and data scientist to join a major initiative at a critical point in our company’s growth. The ideal candidate (which means you, right?) will be responsible for debugging existing code bases and innovating new solutions through data science research. Other duties include enhancing & maintaining the core product, creating & maintaining the tests for various code repositories,\n\nThe position requires:\n- Possess a rock-solid background in Computer Science (minimum BS in Comp Sci or related field) or at least 5 years of development experience in a challenging, fast paced environment.\n- Demonstrated advanced proficiency in one or more of the following fields: Natural Language -\n Processing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Recommendation Systems.\n- Server-side JavaScript (e.g. Node.js - Express, Koa, Hapi).\n- Client-side JavaScript (e.g. React, MobX, Redux).\n- Build tools (e.g. Gulp, Grunt, Browserify, Webpack).\n- Exposure to AWS or other cloud platforms a plus.\n\n\nDesired qualifications include experience with:\n- Advanced degree is a plus but you're not just an academic -- you have hands-on software engineering experience applying complex algorithms to real-world problems at scale.\n- Work effectively in agile teams; get stuff done with minimal guidance and zero BS, help others and know when to ask for help. Clearly communicate complex technical and product issues to non-technical team members, clients, etc.\n- Bonus points for experience implementing machine learning algos on GPU's or other hardware acceleration!\n\n\nWhat it's like \n\nLast year, we had a blast. We personally enjoy getting rid of legacy code & turning servers off in favor of clean, new, tested services.\n\nEach project is fairly small in scope with a large amount of flexibility and freedom to discuss & find the best architecture for the job and for the team. Usually, a single person heads up a project, collaborates with another for architecture & solutions, and eagerly looks forward to launching (rather than endlessly polishing).\n\n- Slack for conversations.\n- Asana for project tracking & deliverables.\n- Github for code collaboration.\n- DroneCI for CI & CD.\n\nBeing in a USA timezone is highly desirable.\n\n\nFor example...\n\nIn 2016 we...\n\n- Built and deployed a central platform for managing monetization across our portfolio.\n- Broke up an old monolith into smaller Docker services running on Rancher and got a solid, always-deploying CI/CD pipeline.\n- Established a lightweight Agile process to aid developer efficiency from initiative to initiative.\n- Worked with in house teams to conduct research in the frame of Recommendation Systems with a working prototype.\n\nIn 2017 we're...\n\n- Building applications to expand the business into areas of organic growth.\n- Refactoring and simplifying our micro-services ecosystem.\n- Doubling down in a robust product recommendation approach to better serve our users.\n\n\nHuman Environment\n\n- Centrally located in downtown Houston, free employee parking.\n- Coed work environment, casual dress code.\n- Cool office perks (e.g. sodas & coffee, happy hours, etc.).\n- Generous salary considerations & full benefits.\n- 6% 401k matching\n- 100% health / vision / dental for you & subsidies for the rest of your family\n- 15 vacation & sick days / yr.\n- Gym membership reimbursement up to $100/mo\n\n\nWhat We Value\n\nWe love to work as a team but office hours are flexible. Producing is more important than meeting a 9 to 5 schedule. We understand there are moments when you need to isolate yourself to concentrate so working from home is permitted and encouraged.\n\nWe like to have a good time and minimize stress with good in-office coffee, ping pong, lounge/reading time and regular happy hours. We work hard and meet realistic deadlines. What good is delivering a poor product early?\n\nWe also understand that family is important, so time-shifting (and sometimes day-shifting) is necessary to deliver for both the team & your family.\n\n \n\nPlease mention the words **WEALTH STAIRS TOSS** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yNDk=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, Machine Learning, Data Science, Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, Education, Cloud and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n

\nAbout Us:\nCrowdFlower is changing the way work gets done, and we want you to help us make it happen.\nWere building a platform that makes it easy for data scientists to enrich their data by distributing work to an on-demand workforce located around the world. In addition to being an integral player in the red hot data science, machine learning and big data fields, we also provide critically needed work and income to millions of micro-tasking workers around the world. Everything our engineers do has real and tangible impact, everyday.\nWe need smart, innovative people to help us build scalable, resilient and responsive systems, working with our exceptional team in San Franciscos Mission District. You can look forward to working with a dynamic, growing company in a casual and fun environment with an opportunity to make an impact at all levels of the business.\nLearn more about our engineering culture at http://www.crowdflower.com/careers/engineering.\nThe Job:\nWhen we say Full Stack Engineer, we're looking for someone that is comfortable building custom UI/UX as well as defining API endpoints for the UI to communicate with. In terms of MVC, the position looks like: 5% M, 75% V, and 20% C. The primary tools you'll employ are Rails and jQuery. You like to work with different technologies and are passionate about constantly learning new things. You take pride in designing elegant, simple solutions to challenging problems, creating quality software components and promoting best practices for agile software development. You will help us ensure we continue to evolve and keep our edge as a world­-class development team. \nResponsibilities:\n* Distilling complex requirements into simple interfaces.\n* Defining the future of CrowdFlower's platform.\n* Building new products that use the core CrowdFlower platform.\n* Improve the interface that tens of thousands of CrowdFlower contributors and clients use everyday.\n* Take pride and ownership in your work and encourage others to do the same\n* Promote best practices for writing maintainable, well­-tested code\n\n\nMust Haves:\n* 3+ yrs experience on at least one significant production-level web app in Rails.\n* Experience in multiple programming languages (we primarily use Ruby and JavaScript).\n* A solid command of JavaScript. When something breaks, you either know exactly why it broke, or can find out easily.\n* The ability to design new interfaces - thinking up a creative solution and being able to implement it effectively.\n\n\nExperience with these would be definite assets:\n* Client-side MVC - React and/or Backbone\n* Jasmine/TDD experience\n* An opinion about Web Components/ES6\n* Git skills and GitHub repos full of cool stuff you've hacked on\n* A great design aesthetic\n* PostgreSql, JQuery, Redis\n* AWS, Jira, Confluence.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Scala, Ruby, API, Admin, Machine Learning, Data Science, jQuery, Engineer, Sys Admin, Full Stack, Design and Digital Nomad jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $125,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n