
Senior Software Engineer – Go | Machine Learning Platform
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About the Position
We stand with Ukraine!
Akvelon is an American company with offices in Seattle, Mexico, Ukraine, Poland, and Serbia. Our company is an official vendor of Microsoft and Google. Our clients also include Amazon, Evernote, Intel, HP, Reddit, Pinterest, AT&T, T-Mobile, Starbucks, and LinkedIn. To work with Akvelon means to be connected with the best and brightest engineering teams from around the globe and working with an actual technology stack building Enterprise, CRM, LOB, Cloud, AI and Machine Learning, Cross-Platform, Mobile, and other types of applications customized to client’s needs and processes.
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join a high-impact Content Platform team focused on modernizing backend infrastructure and services.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join a high-impact Machine Learning Platform team working on the infrastructure that powers recommendations, content discovery, and user and content quantification for a large-scale global consumer platform.
The team’s work directly impacts multiple product and engineering areas, including Growth, Advertising, Feeds, and Core Machine Learning.
You will contribute to the next generation of systems powering personalized feeds, search, and other core product experiences used at massive scale.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain the next-generation backend systems powering personalized feeds, search, and other core products.
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality and performant frontend UI features.
- Write efficient, scalable, and maintainable production code.
- Develop and evolve test automation frameworks, tools, and services.
- Collaborate across engineering disciplines and work closely with Machine Learning, Product, and Infrastructure teams.
- Contribute to highly scalable systems supporting machine learning and personalization use cases.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience as a Backend Engineer / Software Engineer.
- 2+ years of commercial Golang experience.
- Excellent debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to quickly understand and work with unfamiliar tools, systems, and technologies.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in distributed teams.
- Experience with Apache Spark and Flink.
- Experience working with machine learning platforms or ML infrastructure.
- Upper-Intermediate+ level of English.
- Ability to work till till 3 pm PST daily is a must.
This position is open only to candidates based in Europe / Latam and is not open to U.S.-based applicants.
Working Conditions and Benefits
- Flexible working schedule: 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week
- Paid vacation, sick leave (without a sickness list)
- Official state holidays – 11 days considered public holidays
- Professional growth while attending challenging projects and the possibility to switch your role, master new technologies and skills with company support
- Personal Career Development Plan (CDP)
- Employee support program (Discount, Care, Health, Legal compensation)
- Paid external training, conferences, and professional certification that meet the company’s business goals
- Internal workshops & seminars
- Corporate library (Paper/E-books) and internal English classes
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Akvelon is an outsourcing company that has been developing projects for clients around the world since 2000, from small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. In 15 offices around the world, we create software for large enterprise products and ML applications. ⠀Development office in Ukraine (Kharkiv) was opened in November 2008 and presently employs more than 300 people. Currently Akvelon Ukraine has offices in Kharkiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Gdansk. Only during 2021, our staff grows by 49%! ⠀Companies, such as Microsoft, Reddit, LinkedIn, GitHub, Amazon, Pinterest, Airbnb, Starbucks, T-Mobile, Intel, Nokia, Tideworks, Dropbox and many more, have greatly benefited from working with Akvelon’s talented employees. ⠀We 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗮 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 USA 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀’ 𝗛𝗤. There is also the possibility of relocation to Poland. ⠀We offer:— Paid vacation— Paid sick days— Official state holidays— No fixed working day start— Remote work— Paid medical consulting and tests— Compensation for fitness & workouts— Personal career development plan— Paid professional certification and self-development courses— Knowledge-sharing events & meetups— Internal English classes and speaking club— Corporate events and team buildings ⠀Akvelon is about socially significant projects, career growth, and development in various stacks, a culture of environmentally friendly communication and empathy, innovative technologies, and a flexible approach to work. We are not looking for candidates for projects, but we take people to a company where there is always an opportunity to grow and develop effectively in tandem with the team. ⠀Join us —[email protected]
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