Senior Software Engineer- Machine Learning

The Zulily machine learning team is the brain of the multiple products from personalization to advertising optimization to merchandising eff...

The Zulily machine learning team is the brain of the multiple products from personalization to advertising optimization to merchandising efficiencies and instrumental in the revenue growth. It's a fun team that works together in solving hard problems using both open source and cloud technologies. We are growing fast!Job Description DetailsThe Zulily machine learning team is the brain of the multiple products from personalization to advertising optimization to merchandising efficiencies and instrumental in the revenue growth. It's a fun team that works together in solving hard problems using both open source and cloud technologies. We are growing fast!Check out some of the tech blogs from the team a Senior Software Engineer on the Machine learning team, you own our machine learning and experimentation platforms, train and test new models, and deploy them as a service to our customers. This is your opportunity to make a big impact. You get to work on the entire stack, such as container platforms, machine learning platforms, data security, distributed memory services, service monitoring, real-time experimentation, data transformations, and much more. Your services scale to support high volumes of traffic at low latency and high availability.Responsibilities:Build scalable machine learning services and Machine learning platformsFeature engineering to improve model performance on key business metricsParticipate in design efforts and discussionsReview requirements, software designs, and codeConsistently deliver high-quality software in a timely fashionCollaborate across the technology teamsResearch new technologies to support the rapid business growthWhat Zulily Offers:We have a well-defined career path for our technical talent, with measurable goals.Zulily understands the value of learning; every tech employee receives an annual education budget for personal development. This includes external classes, training, conferences, etc. We also encourage you to bring your new knowledge back to the team to share! In addition, Zulily also has internal L & D tools and opportunities available.Giving back: Every year we offer Zulily full-time employees 8 hours of PAID volunteer time.Zuniversity is a lecture/fireside series that allows you to meet with local influencers and learn about what is going on in our communityQualified Candidates Must Possess:Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field required. A combination of education plus equivalent work experience may be considered.4+ years programming experience (i. e. Java, C#, Python, Go) and excellent CS fundamentals (Algorithms, Binary Trees, Data Structures)Experience building and operating Machine Learning platform and modelsWorking knowledge of Spark, Hadoop, Pig, MapReduce technologies and familiarity with frameworks such as Spark ML-Lib, sci-kit-learn, H2O, Torch, TensorFlow, Theano, CaffeExcellent written and verbal communication skillsDemonstrated personal initiative and strong ownership of deliverablesAbility to explore new ideas and have a passion to make them happenHighly Preferred: background with Amazon Web Services, Master's degreeAbout Zulily, LLCZulily, LLC, is a retailer obsessed with bringing its customers special finds every day-all at incredible prices. zulily features an always-fresh curated collection for the whole family, including clothing, home decor, toys, gifts and more. Unique products from up-and-coming brands are featured alongside favoritesfrom top brands, giving customers something new to discover each morning. zulily was launched in 2010 and is headquartered in Seattle with offices in Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania. For more information visit . zulily, LLC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qurate Retail, Inc. (NASDAQ: QRTEA, RTEB), which includes QVC, HSN, Zulily and the Cornerstone brands (collectively, "Qurate Retail Group"), as well as other minority investments. Qurate Retail Group believes in a third way to shop beyond transactional ecommerce or traditional brick-and-mortar stores and is #1 in video commerce, #3 in ecommerce in North America and #3 in mobile commerce in the U.S. (according to Internet Retailer). For more information, visit an equal opportunity employer, Qurate Retail Group is committed to a diverse workforce and is also committed to a barrier-free employment process. In order to ensure reasonable accommodations for individuals pursuant to applicable law, individuals that require accommodation in the job application process for a posted position may contact us at for assistance.Click Apply and log in with your existing account or create an account. This will allow you to check the status of your application at any time and receive the most up to date communications from our Talent Acquisition team.