Principal Engineer, Machine Learning

Ibotta is looking for a Principal Engineer, Machine Learning & Data to join our innovative team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding.  As a member of the Enablement Tools organization, you’ll have the opportunity to help shape the future direction of key capabilities in the Machine Learning and Data space. The Principal Engineer role will report to the Engineering Director of Enablement Tools.

This position is located in Denver, Colorado as a hybrid position requiring 3 days in office, (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Candidates must live in the United States.

What you will be doing:

• Drive the advancement of our Enablement Tooling capabilities as a Strategic Technical Advisor with an initial focus on Machine Learning and Data (including quality and compliance)

• Use your technical expertise to unlock the advancement of our engineering teams through the development of proofs of concept, new tools and integration methods in the ML and Data space

• Be a people leader capable of motivating teams, influencing others and coaching engineers and other engineering leaders

• Join special projects as needed through coding, guiding, and mentoring to ensure sound architectural implementation and smooth execution and delivery

• Establish architecture vision, principles, and patterns in alignment with the Architecture Team

• Work closely with engineering leaders and Staff+ engineers to inform the technical strategy and roadmap for the Enablement Tools organization

• Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency & A good idea can come from anywhere

What we are looking for:

• 7+ years of experience in software development

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required

• Fundamental knowledge of object-oriented software design, development and architectural principles

• Knowledge of Machine Learning and Data principles, techniques, architectures and methods

• Proven track record of success in driving results as a senior technical leader and coach/mentor to more junior engineers

• Proven expertise owning and driving high-level decisions around object-oriented software design, development and architectural principles

• Highly effective in leading others collaboratively to deliver a common vision

• Deep understanding of development best practices including security, compliance, performance, optimization, reliability, cost efficiency, etc.

• Deep understanding of building highly scalable, observable, and fault tolerant platforms using architectural patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, rate limiters, etc on top of horizontally scalable systems

• Proven experience designing and  implementing observability, monitoring and alerting for services and establishing SLOs for services

• High level of investment and expertise in testing approaches and frameworks, from unit testing to automated testing

• Proven expertise with cloud environments (AWS strongly preferred), DevOps best practices, and Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, etc)

• Deep understanding of architectural concepts, microservices, serverless, event-driven, platforms, etc.

• Experience building design systems, reusable web components, and site factories, a major plus

Some of the traits that we seek in great engineers:

You….

• love to teach and learn from your co-workers

• look for ways to continually challenge yourself and develop as an engineer

• understand that communication is a huge part of your software engineering responsibility and practice it daily

• understand that testing your code is one of the most important aspects of software engineering

• respect diverse perspectives and like collaborating with other engineers to solve hard problems

• understand that delivering products incrementally helps provide more value to the business

• trust your teammates, and embrace healthy conflict and debate. You believe getting it right is more important than being right

About Ibotta ("I bought a...")

Ibotta (NYSE: IBTA) is a leading performance marketing platform allowing brands to deliver digital promotions to over 200 million consumers through a network of publishers called the Ibotta Performance Network (IPN). The IPN allows marketers to influence what people buy, and where and how often they shop – all while paying only when their campaigns directly result in a sale. American shoppers have earned o