Senior Software Engineer (JVM) - AI Services

About the Role

• You’ll build best-in-class AI powered services from the ground up. This team works to abstract AI concerns and deliver endpoints to our internal product teams to build upon. A good understanding of the product, business goals and matching them with your strong ML knowledge will be key.
• Integrating tightly into our existing team, you will be a source of knowledge about ML techniques, acting as a bridge between generalist backend engineers who may not have specific ML experience.
• You’ll make purposeful and data-driven improvements - part of this role is developing key metrics that can inform decisions on the viability or success of a solution. We want to know where we are moving the needle when testing a solution internally as well as continually iterating based on customer feedback and behavior.
• Advocating for smaller, incremental changes and rapid-delivery, you’ll help to continually add value for our customers whilst being flexible to change.
• You’ll always on the lookout for new technologies and techniques to push us further. Part of this role is to keep up-to-date with advancements and proactively suggest ways in which technology can be applied to the business
• You’ll be collaborating with several other stakeholders to support the success of each team member, such as Product Managers, Designers, and Technical Program Managers (TPMs). Perspective from these folks will enable you to understand and solve hard problems

About You

• You are an excellent, pragmatic engineer that is highly skilled in creating Java based web services. Our production services are written in Kotlin so it's a bonus if you have experience there too.
• You have expertise and experience with LLMs and Generative AI.
• You have practical experience with ML techniques for search and retrieval.
• A lot of our work is exploratory and you are equally comfortable with self directing work, as well as collaborating with the team.
• You have a passion and curiosity for science and data gathering to validate our ideas are hitting their goals
• You are a great communicator and have an excellent command of written and spoken English. As a remote company, we rely on clear communication for collaboration and execution.
• You have strong opinions that are loosely held. You are happy to hear and action others folks point of view and equally happy to give feedback to others.
• You understand the need to balance business and customer needs with agile delivery of tightly scoped, scalable code that stands the test of time.

Time Zone Note

Since we have remote team members based in European and North American timezones, ideal working hours are roughly 9 AM - 5 PM ET. As long as the team consistently has four hours of overlap each day, you’re all set.