-
Unique ID:
#8336
-
Price:
$
-
Location:
-
Posted on:
13th of April 2016 at 4:24 PM
-
Expires in:
Expired
Company Description
As the world’s leading digital English dictionary and thesaurus, Dictionary.com helps more than 70 million monthly users attain language success. Our leading mobile applications have been downloaded more than 100 million times — and we are just getting started.
Today, Dictionary is hard at work reinventing itself as a broad-reaching platform empowering users to improve and enrich their language skills in the connected world.
We are:
• Highly energetic and committed to a great product and culture.
• The Market Leader, with 20 years of accumulated language expertise.
• Driven for growth.
• Expanding our products to address fundamental and growing needs.
• Looking for a Cognitive Software Engineer
Job Description
You love to teach machines how to understand and interact with people. You use natural language processing, machine learning, and statistical analysis combined with engineering best practices to deliver valuable cognitive solutions for people, at scale. You have a strong dev-testing strategy, using BDD or similar methods to test your own code with least effort/maximum benefit. You balance out-of-the box thinking and pragmatic execution, and have a strong track record of continuously delivering and improving great software.
You are:
• Highly energetic and committed to a great product and culture.
• Leaving your ego at the door to thrive in healthy debate.
• Passionate with integrity and a healthy sense of work/life balance.
• A team player as likely to learn as to mentor your colleagues.
• A strong communicator with solid analytical skills.
• Self-driven and tireless in the pursuit of high quality results in a fast paced environment.
• A world-class engineer looking for the right team & opportunity to make an impact.
Your Tasks
• Research and Develop cognitive software, using the latest methods and tools.
• Build and launch products with the highest bar of quality and velocity, using modern tech stacks and tools.
• Collaborate closely with technical, analytical, and product teams to execute on an aggressive product roadmap.
Qualifications
• Mastery of a broad range of cognitive sciences, including natural language processing, natural language generation, machine learning, and statistics.
• Proficiency with multiple related tech stacks, such as python/scikit/pandas, R, SAS, and/or Octave.
• Comfort with at least 2 modern back end software tech stacks in use at scale today.
o Examples: Ruby on Rails (MRI or JRuby), Python/Django, Node.js, Java/Grails/Clojure/Scala
• You’ve dealt with the challenges of scaling consumer applications
• You hold fast to a high bar of quality, using testing strategies, code reviews, pair programming, and any other approach to improve the quality of your code for sustainably high velocity.
• You value engaged product owners, quality engineers, production engineers, and other teammates; viewing cooperation with them as mutually beneficial
• You’ve used Hadoop or other distributed MapReduce technologies
• Strong experience with at least one SQL-based RDMS
• Strong knowledge with UNIX
• Good at coaching, learning from, and working with other engineers
Your Experience
• At least 4 years experience in programming skills
• At least 2 years experience in natural language processing
• At least 2 years experience in machine learning
• At least 2 years experience in web services and web applications
• At least 2 years experience in developing or enhancing large and complex software systems
Additional Information
Dictionary.com offers competitive salaries, plus amazing benefits and perks.
Please APPLY ONLINE at: http://tnij.com/tV9ru •Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.
•do NOT contact us with unsolicited services or offers