Software Engineer (Machine Learning) at Superbalist.com

We think big, and follow through!

• Scale: Over 650,000 happy shoppers shop online on Superbalist.com. Show them what you can do.

• Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time.

• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, Superbalist.com and Mr D Food. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.

Who’s who

This position reports to Engineering Team Lead (Machine Learning) 

The high level

• Work with a fire-hose of data

• Build state-of-the-art statistical models

• Touch all aspects of the business

• Brainstorm new ideas and concepts

• Work with teammates on design, and code reviews

• Build real time systems that integrate with the rest of our stack

Your qualifications & experience

• Computer Science degree (alternatively a degree in a related field with work experience as a software engineer)

• Strong Mathematical or Statistical experience

• 3 years experience applying machine learning to real-world problems, preferably in a commercial environment

• Testing and monitoring techniques on performance and model quality

• Analytical mind and business acumen

• Resource management and optimization techniques

Areas of mastery

• Machine learning pipelines

• Python, Tensorflow, scikit-learn, and/or Panda’s experience

Bonus Points

• MSc (or even PhD)

• Automated deployments, scaling, and resource management

• BigQuery, Elasticsearch and/or MySQL

• Docker, Kubernetes

• Event driven architecture (PubSub/Kafka)

• Experience with e-commerce based applications

The skills we need

• Be creative

• Be flexible

• Be data oriented

• Take pride in your work

• Comfortable using open source technologies