Python Job: Senior Software Engineer ( Machine Learning)

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Company

CarTrawler

Location

Dublin - Ireland

Job type

Full-Time

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CarTrawler is the leading B2B technology provider of the car rental and mobility solutions to the global travel industry. Our purpose is to drive successful partnerships. CarTrawler’s end-to-end technology platform expands our airline and travel partners’ offering to their customers, creating substantial ancillary revenue opportunities. We provide unrivaled breadth and depth of content worldwide, including car rental, private airport transfer, and ride-hailing services.

CarTrawler creates innovative, data-led solutions for some of the largest travel brands in the world, including United Airlines, American Express, EasyJet, Alaska Airlines, SWISS, Hotels.com, and Emirates. As a B2B company, we focus solely on helping our airline and travel partners build their brands, not our own.

For our people, they get to work in an indigenous Irish tech company, in healthy, high performing teams, solving interesting problems.

Reporting to:
Data Science DevOps Manager
Role Purpose:
  • Independently drive projects to develop software tools to service our Data Science solutions and operations using cutting edge technologies (e.g. AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) with the ultimate goal to improve business performance.
  • Liase and collaborate with business stakeholders and other engineering depts. to define requirements and develop solutions.
  • Continuously maintain and improve existing tools/services internally developed by DS team
  • Build efficient CI/CD pipelines and design effective testing/QA/logging and monitoring of tools and services.
  • Review code changes and pull requests and ensure CT best practices are adhered to in coding and development
  • Mentor junior ML Engineers by providing support and expertise on Engineering related techniques/skills and to be a point of escalation for them.

What are the responsibilities of a Machine Learning Engineer:

  • Working closely with relevant stakeholders across the business to identify opportunities and ensure alignment across teams and projects
  • Conducting research on Data Science and DevOps to ensure our tech stack is continually improving and aligning with best practices

Developing industry-leading data science devops solutions through:
  • Identifying detailed requirements, sources, and structures to support solution development
  • Determining the optimal solutions and technologies to use to solve the problem at hand
  • Ensuring solutions are implemented with best engineering practises in mind (CI/CD, unit tests, integration tests, logging, monitoring, etc..)
  • Developing scalable solutions that can be integrated into production environments if required
  • Collaborating in the development and deployment of proposed solutions to a live environment and tracking the effects in real time

Maintaining and enhancing existing DS tools/platforms/infrastructure:
  • o MVT – An in-house built multi-variate testing platform
  • o ACDC – Our cloud-based solution for deploying ML to production
  • o Action Factory – An in-house built automated decision making tool
  • o Echo – Our in-house built MLOps pipeline tool
  • o Several in-house built Python libraries

  • Supporting the business with BAU tasks related to tools and services Data Science provide
  • Effectively communicate outputs to other team members and the wider business in a concise manner that can be understood by both technical and non-technical audiences

Top performing Machine Learning Engineer display the following:

  • Work with colleagues in Operations function to ensure they are equipped with required tools, models and resources
  • Display Ownership and initiative, Ability to work in an environment that encourages creative thinking and innovation in the design of programs and processes
  • Solutions over problems You possess strong critical thinking ability, the ability to make effective decisions in ambiguity, to assess the implications of these decisions, and are conscientious of and plan for unintended consequences.
  • Communication: Work with colleagues in Operations function to ensure they are equipped with required tools, models and resources. Ability to influence successfully at all levels within the business along with the ability to build and maintain effective relationships with all team members
  • Team spirit: You have a history of building relationships with a network of people who may be able to assist in a business context and You thrive in a role that has prioritization at the heart


What experience are we looking for?

  • Undergraduate, M.S. or Ph.D. in a relevant technical field, or 2+ years’ experience in a relevant role
  • Good understanding of Software engineering and DevOps practices: Object Oriented Programming, data structure, version control, performance tuning, test driven development, REST API, Docker, etc.
  • Experience using major cloud computing services like AWS, Azure, etc.
  • Expertise in writing well structured, robust and readable code in Python
  • Expertise with version control systems (git) and modern development workflows (feature branches, pull requests etc…)
  • Expertise in writing unit tests and developing integration tests to ensure quality of the product
  • Knowledge of factors which need to be considered when deploying to production environments (computational complexity, resource requirements etc...)
  • Familiarity with relational (SQL), graph and noSQL databases
  • Ability to communicate complex tools and technologies in a clear, precise, and actionable manner, both verbally and in presentation format, to a broad variety of functional leaders
  • Ability to mentor new colleagues and help them learn the technologies, work ethic and collaboration style that works at Cartrawler.
  • Experience using more advanced ML libraries (tensorflow, theano, pytorch etc..) a plus
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Some of Our Benefits
Hybrid Working: Hybrid working at CarTrawler is a combination of office and remote working. Most of the time, people will have flexibility in terms of where they want to work.

Financial Wellbeing:
All employees from day one, whatever their role, are entitled to share options as part of our unique equity scheme offering, we also have an annual performance-related bonus, pension, income protection & life assurance.

Health: Premium VHI health insurance is provided for all team members, we have a dedicated team of Mental Health First Aiders, an Employee Assistance Programme, “Friday Unplugged” – last Friday of every month we have a half-day mental health break.

Leave: 25 days annual leave & 2 company days, as we know life often takes over, as it should! For these instances we offer all eligible team members paid maternity, adoptive, paternity, parents, and marriage leave

Development: We have a dedicated Talent Management Team and Development Framework “Thrive” which supports your professional and personal development throughout your CarTrawler career.

Environmental, Social, and Governance
You will be an ambassador of our culture and social and environmental credentials.

CarTrawler's Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Commitment

CarTrawler is fully committed to ensuring equal opportunities supported by an environment based on mutual respect, inclusion, and dignity at work for all our people. We welcome diversity, valuing the benefits it brings to the workplace. We have a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination of any kind.

The criteria with regards to decisions on positions and promotions are an individual’s ability, behaviors, and merit to perform in the role. To this end, CarTrawler strives to ensure that recruitment, employment, training, and promotion practices and policies do not directly or indirectly discriminate.

We are a purpose-led, values-driven company, with a focus on a culture of shared wins where relationships make the difference. We strive to foster a culture of continuous learning encouraging our people to invest in themselves to Thrive.

Accommodations
CarTrawler will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the interview process. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in any CarTrawler job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits of employment. Please let your recruiter know if you require accommodation OR contact us at [email protected]