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  • Posted: Aug 19, 2022
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    Takealot.com is the leading ecommerce retailer in South Africa and one of the largest, most innovative ecommerce retailers on the African continent. Our mission is to be the most customer-centric online shopping destination in Africa, built around the simple concept that the customer comes first. All of our focus is dedicated to improving the customer ...
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    Manager of Machine Learning

    This position reports to the Engineering Director for Machine Learning.

    The skills we need:

    • Customer centric.
    • Solutions and results-oriented.
    • Natural leader.
    • Innovative problem solver.
    • Curious thinker that understands technical topics beyond the average reader.
    • An ambitious and hard-working individual prepared to do more than the 9 to 5 to get up to speed.
    • An influencer that constantly grows the quality of engineering through technical initiatives.
    • Effective time management and organizational skills.
    • Proven ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships.
    • Must be comfortable with rapidly changing and/or loosely defined requirements that are refined over time.
    • Skilled at active listening and capable of facilitating discussions.
    • Strong communication skills with both internal team members and external business stakeholders.
    • Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes.

    Qualifications & Experience:

    • Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma (Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Machine Learning or Engineering) and a minimum of 5 years’ Software Development experience, of which a minimum of 3 years’ developing production-grade Machine Learning solutions is required.
    • In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma (Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Machine Learning or Engineering), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 8 years’ of Software Development experience, of which a minimum of 5 years’ developing production-grade Machine Learning solutions is required.
    • A minimum of 3 years’ managing and leading a software engineering team, including mentoring and developing technical teams, line management of teams and performance management of teams.
    • In the event of no prior management experience, at least 3 years’ delivering significant Machine Learning solutions as a technical lead, is required.
    • Providing guidance to fellow engineers, evaluating and comparing model performance and model architecture, performing error analysis, and hyper parameter tuning.
    • Experience leading a team technically, with a focus on high-quality output.
    • Experience working within an agile team that is operationally hands-on, and an advocate of that culture.
    • Excellent problem-solving skills.
    • Experience developing software in Python in a test-driven environment (and/or at least in one of the following languages: Java, C, C++ or C#).
    • A thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design and data structures and algorithms.
    • Experience with MySQL or Postgres, and BigQuery or a similar technology in a high-load environment.
    • Significant technical experience and a proven track record of architectural ownership and understanding.
    • Experience in developing distributed, high transactional and available systems.
    • Experience working with Big Data: data volume, variety and velocity.

    Preferred Skills and Experience:

    • Experience developing software for a highly-transactional retail online platform.
    • A thorough understanding of software engineering practices and best practices, including agile software development, source code control systems and the use of software IDEs and development and testing tools.
    • An understanding of software deployment tools, deployment processes and best practices.
    • Experience working with NoSQL data stores.
    • Experience working with Kafka.
    • Experience working with the AWS and/or GCP platforms, and Docker and/or Kubernetes.
    • Experience with building RESTful API web services and microservices.
    • Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP).
    • Experience with search systems and technologies such as SOLR or ElasticSearch.
    • Experience building customer recommendation models (e.g. Collaboration vs. Content-based, Item-to-Item vs. User-to-Item).
    • Experience with Jupyter notebooks.
    • Experience with Scikit-learn, SciPy, Numpy, Pandas and PyTorch.
    • Experience with TensorFlow, TensorFlow Extended, TensorFlow Serving.
    • Experience with Kubeflow and Dataform.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to takealot.com on www.linkedin.com to apply

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