Senior Software Engineer
maropost
Job Description
- Design, train and ship recommendation and ranking models - session-based embeddings, collaborative filtering, content and visual embeddings.
- Build and operate the Python services that serve them at low latency.
- Run the batch pipelines that rebuild model artifacts daily across hundreds of merchants.
- Design and read AB tests; decide what ships on the evidence.
- Own your deployments: containers, Kubernetes manifests, autoscaling, dashboards, alerts.
- Extend our LLM work - a shopping assistant and LLM-assisted catalogue enrichment - with proper evaluation behind it.
What Youʼll Bring to Maropost:
- 5+ years building machine learning systems, with at least 3 years of models serving live production traffic.
- Strong Python,(FastAPI or equivalent).
- Vector databases (Qdrant).
- Other ANN libraries - FAISS, Annoy, ScaNN. HNSWlib is what we run, but the trade-offs transfer.
- Hands-on recommender systems or search ranking experience: implicit feedback, embeddings, approximate nearest neighbour search.
- Solid SQL against analytical stores; ClickHouse experience is a plus.
- Comfortable with Docker and Kubernetes, and willing to own the deployment of your own work.
- Experience running AB tests and reporting results you did not like.
- Streaming systems (Pulsar, Kafka, Flink)
- You exemplify Maropost’s Values:
Customer Obsessed
Extreme Urgency
Excellence
Resourceful