Ann Arbor, Michigan
Principal Engineer Job Opening in Ann Arbor, Michigan - Shoptelligence Overview:
Shoptelligence is a breakthrough real-time retail analytics company based in Ann Arbor with several well-known retailers as initial customers. Our product enables retailers to present ensembles to consumers that compel purchase decisions by providing a range of complementary products, not just more similar products like everyone else. Instead of showing more shirts, how about pants and shoes? Looking at a couch? Instead of recommending more couches, how about a chair, table, rug and lamp? Shoptelligence is demonstrating compelling real-world performance at major retailers, and moving from a late-prototype phase to scaling elastically for growth, as we achieve product-market fit.
Our culture is all about curiosity and passion for what we do. We are a small but dedicated team looking to grow with the right individuals that embody working hard and having fun while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. We thrive on delivering innovative thinking and creative problem solving to our clients so they can provide great shopping experiences to their customers. We look for people who are bright and curious about new things yet pragmatic enough to deliver practical solutions.
We have a great product that is being well received in the industry and a strong and experienced team. Our leadership team includes seasoned executives in tech and advanced analytics and a former e-commerce software CEO, who previously founded a leader in the sector that was valued at over $100M, and drove all revenue and operations as COO for a public e-commerce software company.
Candidate Profile:
Senior developer to architect. 10+ years? experience. You?ve been doing software for a while and have worn a number of hats ? heads-down coding, team leadership, research, and even some project, product or resource management. You?re looking to go all-in with a small team where you can make a major difference in the company and help determine its success or failure. You know how to responsibly acquire technical debt by following patterns, good comments and logging, but also know the importance of rewriting and revising to pay back debt, while being able to help the business team understand those tradeoffs. You will own a major line of business that is core to the company, or may not yet exist.
Role:
As a critical member of the development team, you are a team player and develop high quality code for the core product, create toolsets to help the business scale, and actively participate in R&D in adjacent technology areas to allow the business to maintain its cutting-edge product position.
As initially part of client delivery team, you will serve as a critical role to assure our engines outperform any alternative recommendations in tests, optimize client data integrations as well as design automation of the client onboarding process.
You will learn or become an expert in the APIs, data models, enrichment algorithms, management tools, and capabilities our platform utilizes. You will use this expertise to plan, write and test code for new and enhanced features and offerings, working with Product Management.
You will generally work independently on tasks, but participate as an active team member in daily scrums as part of our agile software development methodology. This includes joining sprint planning meetings as well as estimating work effort on tasks assigned to you and providing guidance to more junior team members.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor?s degree in a computer science, with Masters or PhD highly valued.
10+ years professional experience in software development.
Excellence in planning, project estimation and impact analysis skills.
Excellent communication skills to interact with both technical and non-technical professionals.
Strong track record of timely delivery.
Active communicator in discussions, knowing when to contribute, listen and/or ask questions.
Ability to think critically and design elegant solutions to challenging problems.
Experience designing, building and maintaining real-time, large-scale cloud-based applications.
Initial Technologies: SQL, , Swagger, Angular, Python, Amazon Web Services, Analytics and Big Data Processing.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with A/B testing tools and processes (strongly preferred)
Experience with Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Image Recognition
Previous experience developing in Retail technology, eCommerce, or AdTech (strongly preferred)
Project or team lead experience
Technologies: data discovery tools, iOS, APK
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $90,000.00 to $110,000.00 /year
Job Location:
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Required education:
Bachelor's
Required experience:
Software Development: 10 years
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