Technical Lead

This team is responsible for maintaining a content ingestion as well as a real-time event processing pipeline built in Python, Storm, and Elasticsearch.

The Content Recommendation infrastructure also features an API for content management and, of course fetching recommendations, a set of applications to provide export capabilities of the underlying data, connections to the real-time Natural Language Processing and Topic Extraction service maintained by our Data Science team, and a management interface where client users can configure their recommendations and understand how the recommendation engine itself is performing.

You’ll be managing a team of 3 excellent and professional Full-Stack Engineers, and you’ll have to get your hands dirty when it comes to the development and maintenance of our existing platform.

What you’ll be doing: 

• You’ll be a technical lead in a team of three engineers, sitting in various time zones
• You will build and support products, platforms and tools that provide high leverage to customers and engineering teams
• You will drive continuous improvements to the reliability, accuracy, performance, security and cost our data infrastructure
• You’ll solve business-critical data and distributed systems engineering problems, utilizing the best languages and technologies for the job.
• You work with highly scalable systems that ingest, deduplicate, count, aggregate, store, and archive event data as well as serve real-time analytics insights
• You’ll be in constant contact with all the stakeholders, Product Owners, Product Managers, Business Analysts, QA Teams, Product Strategists, the Directorship team and the clients themselves

Desired qualifications:

• Strong Software engineering, SRE or DevOps background, preferably in the infrastructure space
• Expertise in object-oriented programming languages like Knowledge of build/release systems and processes.
• 3+ years of production experience with at least one dynamically typed language (Node/Ruby/{Python/PHP)
• Understanding and experience of the software development lifecycle and code repositories such as Git, including branching and merging flows
• Deep passion for the infrastructure space and solving complex problems.
• Familiarity with microservice architectures and experience building infrastructure platforms and tools
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms like AWS and Azure and understanding of scaling and reliability concerns.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, both inter- and intra-teams
• Knowledge of container services (Docker/Kubernetes) is a plus.
• You have at least 3 years of tech leadership experience with overseeing numerous projects end-to-end, and are looking for your next big challenge