Machine Learning Engineer

🔨 What you will do

• You will take ownership of automation features from the beginning - understanding the problem - to the end - deploying the model on production -.
• You will setup the environment to speed up our machine learning development.
• You will implement and tune state-of-the-art ML models to get the best results given the available data.
• You will effectively communicate and document your approach, progress, results and challenges with the team.
• You will help us grow the machine learning team: enforce best practices, interview candidate, etc.

👩‍🔬 Who are we looking for

• You can quickly grasp the business context of the problem and using your knowledge of how the model is going to be used, you can choose the right evaluation metric.
• You can dig deep into the data to choose the right dataset split and identify pitfalls arising from non-iid samples.
• You can combining both your practical and theoretical ML knowledge to set the right priorities when choosing which idea or approach to try next.
• You find the simplest solution to solve complex problems programmatically.
• You find joy in delivering features to your customer rather than doing academic research.
• You like to work in a team and challenge your choices with your peers.

🦾 What challenges will you face

• You'll work on complex NLP problems touching multiple domains: multiple language understanding and feature extraction.
• You'll work on unbalanced datasets, not all our customers are the same size.
• Our customers have different processes, different vocabulary. You will face dual-domain adaptation problems.
• The good news: our application generates labeled data and we capture all the signals of our users' interactions, so you'll focus on training models, not labelling data. Yeah!

🏅Our engineering values

• Radical honesty
• We discuss problems and mistakes in the open, with the team, to share our knowledge, opinion, and find the best solutions to make sure they do not happen again.
• We discuss behavioral or personal problems in private, only with the people being involved.
• Our discussions focus on the problem, not on people. People are rarely the problem and we always assume good faith.
• Radical transparency
• We do not hide anything inside and outside the team. We voluntarily and constantly share our successes, our mistakes, and our progress.
• Radical open-mindedness
• We share our knowledge and experience to find the best solutions as a team, never to be right or the smartest in the room.
• We share our opinion only when we have the willingness to change it.
• Radical pragmatism
• We design strategic solutions with a growth mindset. We seek for solutions driving progress at the fastest pace and lowest cost to create progressive long-lasting impact.
• We refuse dogma. We make the best decision for ourselves, in our context.
• Customer-first
• We consider success as having a high customer impact and satisfaction.
• Each decision we make must have sooner or later a positive impact on our customers.
• We privilege customer satisfaction over our comfort.
• We refuse to compromise the quality of our product and customer experience.
• Camaraderie
• There is no place for competition or ego.
• We thrive at helping each other and sharing knowledge to contribute to everyone’s growth.

🚀 Why Back?

• You’ll join a company that believes in a strong engineering culture. We use modern technologies, best practices, within a team of smart people who want to change the way people work. 
• You’ll have the opportunity to build great infrastructure. You can be as creative as you want as long as it creates a better product. 
• You'll work on a modern and robust stack: Go, gRPC, Protobuf, Python, GraphQL, Typescript and React.
• You will team up with the founders to create a great product with your signature on it. 
• We love open-source and will support you in the process of contributing to libraries we use or open-sourcing some of our work. 
• You’ll join a company at an early stage and you will receive an attractive package containing salary and shares. 
• You'll join an amazing team who loves food.