Remote Data Science + Engineering + Scala Jobs

\nIn the Senior Data Scientist role, you will have full ownership over the projects you tackle, contribute to solving a wide range of machine learning applications, and find opportunities where data can improve our platform and company. We are looking for an experienced and creative self-starter who executes well and can exhibit exceptional technical know-how and strong business sense to join our team. \n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO:\n\n\n* Mine and analyze data from company data stores to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques and business strategies\n\n* Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of data sources and data gathering techniques\n\n* Develop and implement data cleansing and processing to evaluate and optimize data quality\n\n* Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets\n\n* Run complex SQL queries and existing automations to correlate disparate data to identify questions and pull critical information\n\n* Apply statistical analysis and machine learning to uncover new insights and predictive models for our clients\n\n* Develop company A/B testing framework and test model quality\n\n* Collaborate with data engineering and ETL teams to deploy models / algorithms in production environment for operations use\n\n* Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy\n\n* Ad-hoc analysis and present results in a clear manner\n\n* Create visualizations and storytelling\n\n* Communicate Statistical Analysis and Machine Learning Models to Executives and Clients\n\n* Create and manage APIs\n\n\n\n\nWHO YOU ARE:\n\n\n* 3-5+ years of relevant work experience\n\n* Extensive knowledge of Python and R\n\n* Clear understanding of various analytical functions (median, rank, etc.) and how to use them on data sets\n\n* Expertise in mathematics, statistics, correlation, data mining and predictive analysis\n\n* Experience with deep statistical insights and machine learning ( Bayesian, clustering, etc.)\n\n* Familiarity with AWS Cloud Computing including: EC2, S3, EMR.\n\n* Familiarity with Geospatial Analysis/GIS\n\n* Other experience with programming languages such as Java, Scala and/or C#\n\n* Proficiency using query languages such as SQL, Hive, and Presto\n\n* Familiarity with BDE (Spark/pyspark, MapReduce, or Hadoop)\n\n* Familiarity with software development tools and platforms (Git, Linux, etc.)\n\n* Proven ability to drive business results with data-based insights\n\n* Self-initiative and an entrepreneurial mindset\n\n* Strong communication skills\n\n* Passion for data\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER:\n\n\n* Competitive Salary\n\n* Medical, Dental and Vision\n\n* 15 Days of PTO (Paid Time Off)\n\n* Lunch provided 2x a week \n\n* Snacks, snacks, snacks!\n\n* Casual dress code\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Data Science, Senior, Cloud, Python, Scala, Marketing and Non Tech 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

\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

JOIN US A SR. ENGINEER - SEARCH RELEVANCE\nTarget is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. But behind the brand our guests love, is a culture of continual innovation – and right now, we are up to big things. The Target Technology Team is driving a transformation in retail, one that will move us from “ and online” to “ and everywhere else.” Our goal is to deliver Target’s unique “Expect More. Pay Less.” promise to guests wherever and whenever they shop, today and tomorrow: in-store, online, on tablets and mobile phones, and in the retail channels of the future. \n \nYou can be a part of developing and launching new services that power all the channels where Target does and will do business – in-store, web, tablet, mobile, and future channels. You’ll have the opportunity to design, develop and support innovative solutions across a variety of applications, platforms and environments, building tomorrow’s technologies in Search, Browse, Product Info, Promotions, Content and Checkout. You’ll put your skills, experience and passion to work in an entrepreneurial environment where success is rewarded.\n \nWe are looking for highly motivated engineering professionals who can connect the in-store experience to the digital environment by creating scalable and seamless multi-channel experiences without losing the brand we are known for. Individuals in this role will have opportunities to gain a large breadth of knowledge by working with experts in the eCommerce, multichannel retail, product management and software engineering fields.\n \nAs an engineer, you are a software developer with an entrepreneurial streak. You will build great products - ready to do whatever it takes to build scalable guest focused, world-class eCommerce applications for the Sr. Engineer. You like resolving complex business problems and find innovative solutions. You love keeping abreast of the latest industry trends and use them to help you innovate. You have strong leadership qualities, great judgment, clear communication skills and a track record of delivering great products.\nKey Responsibilities:\n* Lead and develop search relevance features on our ecommerce search engine \n* Define search metrics to validate and qualify search relevance on the engine \n* Unit test code and create automated test scripts \n* Lead discussions with other engineers and partners to ensure development meets business needs \n* Follow industry standard agile software design methodology for development and technical documentation \n* Research related products and implement innovative solutions \n* Mentor other engineers across product development teams \n* Innovate constantly and maintain the technical edge\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\n* 5+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation from requirement to production \n* Experience in one or more of these areas: Search Relevancy, Search metrics measurement, Query Classification, Lexical Matching, Dynamic ranking and Static Ranking \n* Excellent problem solver, data mining, and search algorithm development skills \n* Strong sense of ownership and the ability to work with a limited set of requirements \n* Team attitude \n* Strong verbal and written communication skills – able to document and share design and specifications with team members and partners.\n\nDesired Qualifications:\n* BS degree in computer science or equivalent \n* eCommerce experience with a track record of innovation \n* Extensive experience working in an agile environment (i.e. user stories, iterative development, etc.) \n* Experience with search engine development; relevance metrics measurement, such as NDCG, CTR, CTS; query understanding and classifier; and ecommerce data mining \n* Solr experience on Query Parser, Relevance Score calculation, Query Field design, Function Query \n* Coding experience in Solr/Lucene Plugins and extensions \n* Expertise in one or more of the following areas: search simulations, lexical matching, fuzzy matching technique, document static ranking, dynamic ranking, relevance tuning\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Scala, SEO, Mobile, Data Science, Engineer and Ecommerce jobs that are similar:\n\n $75,000 — $120,000/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