Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning

Avalara

Job Details

Location: Chennai, Chennai district, Tamil Nadu, India Pune, Pune City, Pune, Maharashtra, 411001, India Posted: Oct 20, 2021

Job Description

The Midgard team in Avalara applies Machine Learning techniques to solve engineering problems. The Midgard-HS Code sub-team build solutions to automatically classify product titles into Harmonic system codes. This is a hard problem requiring latest techniques in machine learning and natural language processing to be applied. There is tremendous business impact that this role will bring about by improving productivity of manual classifiers. The person will get to work with a talented team of engineers who have reputation in the open source community. The tech stack is exciting and it employs modern techniques like event-driven systems, async programming, functional programming, machine learning, platform as service and natural language processing.

Job Duties

proof of concept solutioning

machine learning models, end to end solutions and NLP solutions

software development

infrastructure automation

code reviews

Qualifications

Bachelors or Masters degree with computer science exposure with 5+ years of experience working in software domain.

Savvy with machine learning and natural language processing

Strong knowledge of software fundamentals, data structures and algorithms

CI/CD skills

Optimizing and scaling products

Distributed systems

Cloud-based software

Outstanding problem solving and debugging skills

Strong understanding of object-oriented design & development and common design patterns

Preferred Qualifications

building solutions using machine learning and natural language processing

contributions to open source

presentations in tech forum

building products end to end: from design till production deployment in cloud

Personality traits are

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Professional demeanor, team player, and a positive attitude

Ability to adapt to changing priorities

Strong attention to detail

Working knowledge of source control tools such as GitLab

Proven ability to make things happen and meet commitments

Experience in building scalable micro service architecture

Ability to work under pressure and thrive in a fast paced environment

About Avalara

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