Senior Software Engineer - NLP at Gro Intelligence

Job description

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer - NLP to join our office in Nairobi.

What You Would Be Doing

Gro is building a unique data platform by integrating, processing and mining millions of datasets. As a Senior Software Engineer - NLP, you contribute to shape this platform, scale it to an unprecedented number of datasets and extract critical information from them using NLP techniques. In particular, you

• Work with our international experts to develop new and scalable NLP algorithms to extract structured data from existing and new datasets
• Build these algorithms into tools and libraries to help our analysts integrate new datasets in our platform
• Are responsible for part of the data processing pipeline
• Deal with international, multi-languages datasets
• Participate to the architecture roadmap and identify new opportunities

Who You Are

• You have extensive experience in building and implementing NLP systems (python is a plus)
• You have built and deployed services at scale, used distributed storage and parallel computing
• You have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.
• You like to experiment and play with data to identify new opportunities
• You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code
• You have a point of view but have low ego and is a great team player
• You like to mentor junior members and help them grow

Qualifications

• Technical leadership experience
• Very proficient in at least two of: Javascript, Python, Java, C++
• PhD or Master’s Degree in NLP or Computational Linguistics.
• 10+ years software engineering experience

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with statistical modeling tools (R, MatLab)
• Understanding of relational databases and distributed databases (e.g. Postgres, Cassandra, Bigtable)
• Basic knowledge of Node.js
• Understanding of HTML, CSS, Javascript
• Graduate degree / Research experience