Senior Data Scientist

About the client

We are seeking a Web Engineer with proven experience at major tech companies building web apps serving millions of daily active users. The ideal candidate has worked in large engineering organizations (20+ Web engineers) with multiple teams. They must demonstrate proficiency with modern development practices, including A/B testing, feature flagging,  and data-driven decision making. This role requires someone who can work autonomously in a fast-paced environment, collaborate effectively with product managers, UX designers, data scientists, and other engineering teams, and think strategically about engineering design and scalability rather than just completing assigned tasks. Experience with high-scale consumer applications (10M+ DAU) is strongly preferred. About the Team We bring over 430 million people together each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities. The Post Detail Page Experience team is responsible for one of the highest traffic pages on the platform: the Comments page. We strive to ensure the comment consumption experience is intuitive and delightful for all users. This is a high-impact role where you will drive related technical  and product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one  of the largest sites in the world.

What You’ll Do

• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering  counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel  products and features that our users will love. • Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design,  development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be  reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and  mocks. • Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated  engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows,  recommend best practices, and help mentor junior engineers on the team  to grow their technical expertise. • Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Requirements

• Minimum 10+ years of post-internship, full-time, hands-on,  professional software development experience developing software in one  or more front end focused programming languages; Javascript, Typescript,  ES6. • Experience with one or more front-end web frameworks such as LIT, Polymer, React, Vue, or Angular with experience with CSS. • Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs is a plus. • Experienced with distributed caching layers, and distributed large scale data storage systems. • Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to  deliver projects on schedule, the ability to collaborate with other web  engineers and cross functional partners such as product managers and  designers. • BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience. • Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased  towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things  and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. • Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in  a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical  and non-technical audiences.

Interview Process

• Up to 3 interview rounds

Offer Details

• Full-time Employee of Record (benefits included, varying depending on the country) • Remote only, full-time dedication (40 hours/week) • Required 4-6 hours overlap with PST (Pacific Standard Time) • Competitive compensation package. • Opportunities for professional growth and career development. • Dynamic and inclusive work environment focused on innovation and teamwork