Staff / Senior Software Engineer (Back-end, SaaS, Python)

About UsAt iterative.ai, we build open-source tools for machine learning DVC (12k+ ⭐  on GitHub), and enterprise-grade data infrastructure solutions. We also offer a team collaboration SaaS solution - Studio. We're a well-funded (Series A), remote-first team (50+ employees) on a mission to solve the complexities of managing datasets, ML infrastructure, ML models lifecycle, and other ML & data-centric workflows.We value great collaboration and communication skills, both among internal teams and in how we interact with our users. We take care to balance and be responsive to the needs of our open source community as well as our enterprise customers.Check us out in other places:🖥 Website 📂  Docs 👾: GitHub 🖊  Blog ⏯️  YouTube 💬 Discord
Job DescriptionWe're seeking a strong python backend engineer to work on iterative.ai's SaaS offering - studio - a managed ML workspace/hub allowing for ML teams to share and collaborate experiments, models and moreStrong Python knowledge, code design, some full-stack abilities and excellent coding culture (standards, unit test, etc) are required. We are looking for someone who loves dev tools, ML and MLOps and is ready to be 100% hands-on and lead by doing!

Responsibilities

• Discuss and research issues, bugs and new features.
• Take ownership of the full development lifecycle - From planning, through designing, execution, testing to supporting in production
• Be 100% hands-on - we expect technical expertise on the backend and some full stack ability and involvement in the frontend (react, typescript) to be able to be effective
• Document your code and share knowledge with the team

Must have

• Motivation and interest (Technologies, domain, customer impact)
• Love for clean & efficient code
• Remote work self-discipline - ability to focus and deliver reliably - respect team's planning, deadlines, etc
• Excellent communication skills - clear, constructive, and respectful dialog with other team members, community
• Technical Leadership - hands-on technical leadership, experience in lead by doing, driving big features and architectural decisions. Contributing to the team's growth and enriching other team members with your knowledge and experience

Great to have

• Experience working remotely
• Open source contributions or experience of maintaining, developing an open source project
• System programming experience - kernel, databases, etc.
• Machine Learning or Data Science experience

ℹ️ Our Hiring ProcessWe will go over the process with you in the Introductory call to make sure it is clear and you know what to expect.Here is the full interview process you can expect - It’s our go-to for most positions:🤙  Introductory call [~1h]👨‍🏫  Tech call with a team member [~45m]👩🏾‍💻  Take-home coding task [real-world, asynchronous] - We pay for your time! See this FAQ.🦾  Task summary / retro call [Optional, ~1h]✏️ Offer
👩‍💻 Culture - We take care of our people💖  Diversity - As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, iterative.ai is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life, and work with a wonderful team that does the same! No matter who you are or where you’re from; we need you for what you can do and for caring about ML and delivering great developer tools!⚖️  Equal opportunities - We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do. No country or region takes precedence for personal growth, compensation, team recognition, or anything else, it just doesn’t matter where you are.👣  Flexibility first - Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and sched