Founding/Lead Engineer (Python, Data Science, ML) - REMOTE

Company: Optello
Location: Houston, Texas, United States
Type: Full-time
Posted: 04.SEP.2021

Summary

If you are a Founding/Lead Engineer (Python, Data Science, ML) with experience, please read on! Backed by the same folks behind Grace Note,...

Description

If you are a Founding/Lead Engineer (Python, Data Science, ML) with experience, please read on!

Backed by the same folks behind Grace Note, Open Play, Marketo, and Chartmetric, we are an automated advertising platform that dynamically launches campaigns for catalog music based on real-world events such as holidays, concerts, and viral Tik-Tok video. This is a critical hire - you will be our founding/Lead Engineer and lead all Engineering in the near future!

What You Will Be Doing

  • Build, design, and implement new features and extend existing functionality for our Python-based backend services and APIs
  • Ideate and create new ways to target audiences using cohort analysis in-order to build out our Identification Engine
  • Identify and test new data signals in-order to build signals identification engine
  • Build, design, and implement new features and extend existing functionality for our Python-based backend services and APIs
  • Analyze and run tests to drive insight into how our advertisements impact customers ROI
  • Develop the technical strategy and direction for the company as part of the leadership team
  • Hands-on architecture and coding to create a platform merging music, fin-tech and ad-tech
  • Hire the right engineers to advance the engineering organization
What You Need for this Position
  • Experience with advertising technology and/or fin-tech and/or music industry (must have experience)
  • 5+ yrs of experience building and leading agile, cross-functional product teams
  • You have a deep understanding of the full software engineering lifecycle
  • Lead and work as part of the engineering team in an agile environment
  • You can communicate technical problems and solutions not only to developers, but also to product managers, designers and other stakeholders
  • You like to take ownership and thrive off of learning new skills and state of the art technologies
  • Data security minded
What's In It for You
  • Competitive compensation with founding equity opportunity
  • This role has an opportunity to grow into a C-level position as the company grows
  • Highly motivating working environment within a remote team of experts who are changing the global music industry
  • Opportunity to guide all technical decisions and develop technical roadmap for the company
  • Techstack: Service based architecture hosted at AWS (S3, Lambda, Ec2, Athena data lake, Red shift), Python (Pandas, Flask, Sqlalchemy), Postgres, Javascript web app (React/vue.js), Facebook Business Manager
So, if you are a Founding/Lead Engineer (Python, Data Science, ML) with experience, please apply today!
  • Apply directly to this job opening here!
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Trent Roberts - Sr. Executive Recruiter - Optello

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Optello is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Your Right to Work - In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

Optello will consider for Employment in the City of Los Angeles qualified Applicants with Criminal Histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring (Ban the Box) Ordinance.

 
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