Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Careers | Bazaarvoice | Senior Big Data Software Engineer

Senior Big Data Software Engineer

2015-2886
-TX-Austin Engineering

Each month, more than 400 million people view and share authentic opinions, questions and experiences about 20 million products in the Bazaarvoice network. Our technology platform channels these voices into the places that influence purchases.

Our network helps businesses gain access to a wider audience of shoppers and trusted consumer content to improve sales and marketing. Insights from our network data help marketers and advertisers provide more engaging experiences, drive product innovation and performance, make better merchandising decisions and build brand advocates and loyalty.

Bazaarvoice has access to the sentiment contained in hundreds of millions of reviews on hundreds of millions of products across a variety of industries as well as the browsing behavior on close to 600 million users a month across our client sites.  Our analytics teams leverages these data sets to help our clients build better products, build stronger relationships with their customers, and make decisions on when and where to offer products.  Analytics creates Bazaarvoice products that help companies understand the competitive positioning of their products.  A big area of business growth for Bazaarvoice will come from the efforts of our analytics team.

We are looking for a great software engineer to help build the reportable data store of Bazaarvoice data that will power our client-facing reporting, product performance reporting, and financial reporting.  You will also help us aggregate data sets to build out known new product offerings related to analytics and media as well as a number of pilot initiatives based on this data. You will need to understand the business cases of the various products and build tools as well as data sets and access methodologies to support all of them in a scalable way. In addition, you will help us pick and choose the right technologies for this platform.

In your first 90 days you can expect the following:

  • An overview of our Big Data engineering code base and development model
  • Access to the different data sets as well as training on who uses them and how they use them.
  • 4 days of Cloudera training to provide a quick ramp up of the technologies involved. 
  • By the end of the 90 days, you will be able to complete basic enhancements to code performing large-scale analytics using Map/Reduce as well as the ability to make incremental changes to existing analytics jobs.

Within the first year you will:

  • Own design, implementation, and support of major components of analytics development. This includes definition of data to be captured, how it should be aggregated and made available, and implementation of those mechanisms.
  • Have a complete grasp of the technology stack, and help guide where we go next.
  • 3-5 years of experience with highly scalable distributed systems using open source tools.
  • In-depth knowledge of the software development lifecycle (design, build, test, deploy, support).
  • An ability to demonstrate software engineering fundamentals such as OO design, unit testing, code reuse, code reviews.
  • Nice to have experience building large-scale data processing systems with extensive knowledge in data warehousing solutions. This includes developing prototypes and proof-of-concepts for the selected solutions.
  • Extensive knowledge in different programming/scripting languages such as Java, C++, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.
  • Familiarity withone or more big-data infrastructures such as Hbase, Hadoop, Mongo, Casandra, or RDBMS.
  • An understanding and experience building high-performance algorithms.
  • Knowledge of the following technologies or concepts:
    • Familiar withHadoop, HBase, MapReduce, or other Big Data technologies.
    • Data ETL and data modeling.
    • Modern build tools such as Maven, Hudson, Github, etc.
    • Agile development methodology.
    • Linux.
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Careers | Bazaarvoice | Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer - Innovation Lab

Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer - Innovation Lab

2015-2890
-TX-Austin Engineering

Each month, more than 550 million people view and share authentic opinions, questions and experiences about 20 million products in the Bazaarvoice network. Our technology platform channels these voices into the places that influence purchases.

Our network helps businesses gain access to a wider audience of shoppers and trusted consumer content to improve sales and marketing. Insights from our network data help marketers and advertisers provide more engaging experiences, drive product innovation and performance, make better merchandising decisions and build brand advocates and loyalty.

Do you want to work on something that you, your friends, family and hundreds of millions of others use every day, and actually makes you smarter about how you spend your money?  What if you could do that with a bunch of really smart people in an environment that actively encourages learning, growth and individual development?  For good measure, we'll even throw in the opportunity to explore technology from the UI to the database, and everything in between, all while working on products that world's biggest brands rely on in order to maintain their place among the world's biggest brands.

Every day, the Bazaarvoice engineering team tackles interesting and challenging problems across virtually every major computer science problem domain, and we do it all at a massive scale.  So whether you're interested in server-side Java, UI/UX, massive datasets, mobile/social, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, or data visualization, we've got an opportunity for you.

Bazaarvoice is looking for outstanding people who are passionate about building great software, and want their work to have real-world impact.  At Bazaarvoice, over the last 9 years our software has facilitated hundreds of billions of consumer-to-consumer conversations and interactions about products and services offered by the world's biggest brands and retailers.  The best part is that we're just getting started, and we need you to help us take things to the next level.

We are hiring full time stellar full stack software engineers with strong front-end skills for our Bazaarvoice Product Incubator / Labs team located in Austin, TX. The Incubator team is responsible for prototyping, piloting and proving new product innovations and new lines of business. We are looking for self starter entrepreneurs and hackers who love brainstorming new product ideas, rapid prototyping, and working with customers. In addition to launching pilots, Labs Engineers are responsible for exploring new social technologies, web APIs, and 3rd party and partner technology integrations. 

Personal Characteristics: 

  • Passion for technology: 'nuf said
  • Indomitable work ethic: Can you reject setbacks and enthusiastically persist until ambitious goals are achieved? Are you resourceful and innovative at tackling complex challenges in a timely matter?
  • Flexible and adaptable: Do you love quickly learning new technologies and adopting new methodologies?
  • Communicative: Will you take an "open source" attitude to quality assurance? Keeps others in the company informed and up to date on your priorities, current tasks and work completed. Encourages constructive criticism on your work?
  • Accountability: Are you a results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds yourself accountable for performance, takes absolute ownership, and champions all aspects of customer and product initiatives? Do you believe in owning your product from design to supporting its production operation?
  • Problem solver: Are you a strong, analytical problem solver with a common sense and practical solutions orientation?

The ideal candidate meets these requirements:

  • You should have a degree in Computer Science or related technical field
  • 3-5 years experience in web development and design
  • Love of rapid, iterative customer-centric development
  • Experience with end-to-end web development using node, python, Java, SQL, Javascript (jQuery), HTML, CSS 
  • Knowledge of dynamic languages like Python, Ruby and Javascript
  • Love for experimenting with new application development technologies and tool sets (e.g. Angular, Ember, Node, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Django, Grails, Scala/Lift)
  • Familiarity with database (mysql), webserver (apache) and linux administration
  • Familiarity with hosting and managing applications with Amazon Web Services
  • A little bit of a hacker's mentality to get things up and running quickly (rapid iteration is the key to POC projects)
  • A good eye for design and considerate of user experience
  • Be hands-on, willing to dig in and crank out code.
  • Be a learner, able to explore new areas, learn new things, and quickly apply them to solve new problems.
  • Be a spark, bring energy, passion and creativity to work every day.

If this sounds like you, or someone you know, please give us a shout!  We'd love to talk to you directly about the opportunities that Bazaarvoice has for you.

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Careers | Bazaarvoice | Senior Big Data Software Engineer

Senior Big Data Software Engineer

2015-2881
-CA-San Francisco Engineering

Each month, more than 400 million people view and share authentic opinions, questions and experiences about 20 million products in the Bazaarvoice network. Our technology platform channels these voices into the places that influence purchases.

Our network helps businesses gain access to a wider audience of shoppers and trusted consumer content to improve sales and marketing. Insights from our network data help marketers and advertisers provide more engaging experiences, drive product innovation and performance, make better merchandising decisions and build brand advocates and loyalty.

Bazaarvoice has access to the sentiment contained in hundreds of millions of reviews on hundreds of millions of products across a variety of industries as well as the browsing behavior on close to 600 million users a month across our client sites.  Our analytics teams leverages these data sets to help our clients build better products, build stronger relationships with their customers, and make decisions on when and where to offer products.  Analytics creates Bazaarvoice products that help companies understand the competitive positioning of their products.  A big area of business growth for Bazaarvoice will come from the efforts of our analytics team.

We are looking for a great software engineer to help build the reportable data store of Bazaarvoice data that will power our client-facing reporting, product performance reporting, and financial reporting.  You will also help us aggregate data sets to build out known new product offerings related to analytics and media as well as a number of pilot initiatives based on this data. You will need to understand the business cases of the various products and build tools as well as data sets and access methodologies to support all of them in a scalable way. In addition, you will help us pick and choose the right technologies for this platform.

In your first 90 days you can expect the following:

  • An overview of our Big Data engineering code base and development model
  • Access to the different data sets as well as training on who uses them and how they use them.
  • 4 days of Cloudera training to provide a quick ramp up of the technologies involved. 
  • By the end of the 90 days, you will be able to complete basic enhancements to code performing large-scale analytics using Map/Reduce as well as the ability to make incremental changes to existing analytics jobs.

Within the first year you will:

  • Own design, implementation, and support of major components of analytics development. This includes definition of data to be captured, how it should be aggregated and made available, and implementation of those mechanisms.
  • Have a complete grasp of the technology stack, and help guide where we go next.
  • 3-5 years of experience with highly scalable distributed systems using open source tools.
  • In-depth knowledge of the software development lifecycle (design, build, test, deploy, support).
  • An ability to demonstrate software engineering fundamentals such as OO design, unit testing, code reuse, code reviews.
  • Nice to have experience building large-scale data processing systems with extensive knowledge in data warehousing solutions. This includes developing prototypes and proof-of-concepts for the selected solutions.
  • Extensive knowledge in different programming/scripting languages such as Java, C++, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.
  • Familiarity withone or more big-data infrastructures such as Hbase, Hadoop, Mongo, Casandra, or RDBMS.
  • An understanding and experience building high-performance algorithms.
  • Knowledge of the following technologies or concepts:
    • Familiar withHadoop, HBase, MapReduce, or other Big Data technologies.
    • Data ETL and data modeling.
    • Modern build tools such as Maven, Hudson, Github, etc.
    • Agile development methodology.
    • Linux.
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Friday, April 3, 2015

Data Scientist (m/f) | PAYMILL GmbH

Data Scientist (m/f)

Data Scientist (m/f)

PAYMILL is a young, innovative payment transaction provider based in Munich, Germany, which enables companies to offer credit card payments on their websites. The modern technology and the Top quality customer support distinguishes PAYMILL from other payment service providers. PAYMILL is active in almost 40 countries and is supported by well-known international investors. Become now a part of our dynamic, international and highly motivated team and actively help to shape the rapid growth of our company.

Currently we are looking for a new team member in Munich as Data Scientist (m/f).
 

What you will be doing

  • Complex data analysis and development of predictive models based on modern statistic methods
  • Interpretation of the data and derivation of recommendations based on own analysis
  • Bring business requirements to big-data-solutions and create the necessary systems, processes and interfaces
  • Development of new solutions and analytical methods for current and future issues

What we expect from you

  • You have a degree in mathematics, physics, business administration or information technology
  • Long experience in a similar position
  • Consolidated knowledge in statistics and machine learning, Know-how in natural language processing would be an advantage
  • You have already worked with SQL, Excel and also with R, Python or other common statistics software
  • Logical-analytical power, conceptual strength as well as a good psychological-technical understanding and strategic thinking are some of your main competences
  • Strong communication and presentation skills
  • You speak English fluently, additional languages such as German would be a plus

What you get

  • A dynamic, modern and exciting working environment
  • Perfect experience of a start-up atmosphere, professional working ethics and a vast scope of tasks
  • Room for your personal and professional development
  • A motivated team that lives a strong cohesion - both on and off the job - and organizes numerous events through the year
  • A flat hierarchy and short decision lines 

[Jawbone] Software Engineer, Data Science

"We create software solutions with our innovative mobile and wearable devices."

Software Engineer, Data Science

The next era of technology will be defined by products that are smarter, interconnected and seamlessly integrated into our daily routines. Jawbone is building these products -- and the data science team is a key piece of this puzzle. If you’re passionate about data, wearable tech, and inspiring people to live better you’d fit right in.

The Data

The Jawbone UP wristband collects data at 30 Hz, 24/7 and it helps hundreds of thousands of people understand how they move, sleep and eat. Our best-in-class wireless speakers, headsets and apps tell stories about the music people listen to and their environment. We want to turn these insights into products -- and that’s why we need you on the data team. You know what it takes to build a data product that delights and inspires millions of users all over the world. You’re passionate about turning data into stories that capture people’s imaginations. You know it’s no small feat, and you’re up for the challenge.

The Impact

You’ve worked with data that’s big, messy and incredibly rich. Maybe you’ve optimized ad CTR, but now you’re ready to start building the future of wearables, personal lifestyle tracking, and the Internet of Things. You know how to ask the right questions -- and how to explain the answers concisely. You’re a data enthusiast and a data skeptic; we need both when we’re asking questions about habit formation, motivation and sleep. You know enough machine learning to personalize and shape the user experience, but you also know when machine learning is not the answer.

The Team

We’ve hired data science veteran @mrogati to build a team of data scientists, data engineers and data visualization experts -- and they’ve delivered! In our mobile app, we’re now automatically detecting and classifying workouts and suggesting food items to log. We’ve shown the world how an earthquake affects our sleep -- and why our bodies don’t care about timezones. This is no academic research lab -- everybody codes and ships. You’ll work closely with data scientists like @brianwilt and @eminomura & engineers like @eugmandel to shape the future of our products and establish Jawbone as a data thought leader.

Technologies and Learning

How can we cluster users by their lifestyle goals? How do you define a ‘nap’?  Supervised or unsupervised learning? What’s the data signature of a habit? How do we detect outliers, build predictive models and solve cold start problems -- at scale? How can we measure the impact we have on our users’ lives? What’s the state of the art for analyzing time series data? You’re going to be instrumental in answering these type of questions. You’re going to learn a lot in the process, and you’ll mentor junior engineers and data scientists. You’ll represent Jawbone and the data team as a speaker at professional events -- if you’re not a great speaker already, you will be.

Join us!

Our mission is to deliver better living through data -- from wearable tech to best-in-class Bluetooth headsets and wireless speakers. We’re looking for data scientists who share our passion to transform massive amounts of data into products that delight our customers and improve their lives.

You can work from Sunnyvale or San Francisco. We have healthy catered lunches and great benefits -- but what’s most exciting is the impact you’ll have, what you’ll learn, and the team you’re going to be a part of.

Are you up for it?

Location

San Francisco / Sunnyvale, United States
San Francisco / Sunnyvale, United States
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

[Prezi] Data Engineer - San Francisco

Challenges

Build the data infrastructure and frameworks that will be used to find correlations across Marketing and Sales that will form testable hypotheses and upon which experiments will be judged.
Conduct data engineering and analysis, and while partnering with our data analyst, arrive at conclusions and make actionable business recommendations based on your research and investigations. You’ll need to work smart, fast, and cross-functionally.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with our San Francisco-based data analyst to test, build, automate, and maintain datasets for our Marketing and Sales teams that will be used to measure the success of new campaigns and product features

  • Turn business questions into testable hypotheses and hypotheses into scalable and definitive experiments (ie: what does it take to convert a free user to paying?). These experiments will inform the highest-level business decisions at Prezi.

  • Triage problems with our campaigns and products by investigating user engagement logs and datasets

Requirements

  • 3-5 years of experience working with Big Data (Internet, banking, telecommunication, or cloud SaaS)

  • Experience in data transformation: SQL, Pig, Python, and Shell scripting

  • Experience in basic statistical methodology: eg. clustering and testing, predictive modelling (eg. decision trees, regressions)

  • Know at least one statistical software in depth: R, Rapidminer, SPSS, SAS, MATLAB etc.


We work with:

  • Pig, Bash, Python, SQL, R

  • Hadoop system

  • Amazon Web Services: EC2, EMR, Redshift

Why work at Prezi?

  • Continuing opportunities to learn new technologies

  • Be empowered to affect Prezi’s business strategy

  • Immediate impact - your work will be seen by more than 50 million users as soon as you deploy

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  • Office in downtown San Francisco

  • International work environment and opportunities to travel internationally

  • Creative, fast-paced, flexible, fun, and challenging environment

  • Competitive compensation and benefit package including equity