Job Description
General information:
- This role is open to candidates based in the US.
Interview Process:
- Two to three 30-minute interview rounds (within the same week)
Start Date:
- ASAP.
About Us
Scorpion is the leading provider of technology and services helping local businesses thrive. We do this by helping customers understand local market dynamics, make the most of their marketing, and deliver experiences their customers will love. We offer tools to know what’s going on with marketing, competitors, and customers. We offer a unique blend of AI support and teams of digital marketing experts committed to customer success. At Scorpion, we are ready to do whatever it takes to help our clients reach their goals.
About The Role
We're looking for a talented, collaborative, and ambitious Python Software Engineer or Machine Learning Engineer to contribute to the development of data-intensive AI microservices and their integration with front-end applications. The Python Software Engineer will work closely with data scientists, machine learning engineers, and data engineers to develop, integrate, and evaluate AI systems, including generative AI applications built on the latest large language models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4. You will play an integral part in the project life cycle and work closely with team members from the initial concept to the final release.
What Your Success Will Look Like
You will be responsible for the development of data, generative AI, and machine learning-enabled microservices and their integration with front-end applications, which includes designing, coding, testing, deploying, documenting and supporting the things that you buildOwn the back-end code and APIs for AI products currently being worked on and new products to comeDefine extensible and flexible serverless architectures to facilitate rapid iteration on product conceptsIntegrate and process data from a variety of structured and unstructured data sourcesMaintain code base; make fixes and improvementsFacilitate data collection through external and internal APIs
Who You Are And What You Bring
- 5+ years professional software engineering experience
- Advanced Python skills
- Microsoft Azure experience (or AWS / GCP)
- Experience with SOA architecture (ideally microservices) and serverless
- Experience with SQL, Spark or PySpark, NoSQL
- Experience in an agile software development environment
- Experience developing high throughput / low latency APIs
This is not a data scientist role, but some exposure to generative AI (Large Language Models), machine learning, MLOps, LLMOps, or experience collaborating with AI engineers or data scientists would be helpfulA highly organized, innovative, and collaborative individual capable of adapting to workflowsPerforms work under minimal supervision. Handles complex issues and problems and refers only to the most complex issues to more senior colleagues.May provide code review, coaching, and/or mentoring to less experienced colleagues
Our Benefits
- We invest in our employees by offering them diverse benefits from best-in-class carriers. These benefits provide enough choice and flexibility to keep our employees and their families healthy and happy — today and tomorrow.
100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insuranceFlexible paid time off, so you can rest, relax and recharge away from workEmployee equity programPaid parental leavePaid cell phone and serviceRemote office allowanceProfessional development and development coursesRegular manager check-ins to drive performance and career growth through LatticeMonthly company all-hands meetings