Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML

Remuneration:	R850000 - R950000 per year cost-to-company
Location:	Johannesburg
Education level:	Degree
Job level:	Mid/Senior
Type:	Permanent
Reference:	#GZ42094
Company:	E-Merge IT Recruitment

Job description

Our technology-driven client is currently looking for a senior software engineer to join their artificial intelligence and machine learning exciting team of passionate and intelligent technologist. You will work in an environment that fosters creativity and innovation with bleeding-edge technologies!!
They currently have enormous internal public-facing products which are generating enormous volumes of data. They are in the process of regimenting and purifying their procedures to ingest, collate and analyse this data. The AI and Machine Learning Specialist role should appeal to the elite programmer with a passion for AI, BigData, search and recommendations.
Fostering a high-performance culture that’s defined by having the best people with the skills and determination to deliver above and beyond, this client is looking for someone who is an 'out of the box' thinker, confident and globally-minded. Sounds like you. Wait no more.
 

Requirements

• Relevant tertiary qualification in engineering or computer science
• Five to eight years’ experience in a comparable environment
• Experience in reporting and presentation to senior and executive management
• Knowledge and experience building massively scalable systems
• Knowledge and experience working with high volumes of data (beneficial)
• Knowledge of SCRUM and Agile methodologies (beneficial)
• Strong Linux skills
• Strong core Java skills
• AI experience
• ML experience 

Skills required include but not limited to:

• Java
• HTML
• JavaScript
• Linux shell scripting
• RESTful service development
• Python
• NodeJS
• MSSQL
• MySQL
• MongoDB
• ElasticSearch
• Hadoop

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, maintain and support projects using a variety of big data technologies
• Ascertain requirements by interfacing with their internal clients
• Identify and research alternative technologies that potentially address the requirements
• Delivering requirements for internal and external groups
• Design and document architectures/applications/data-flows
• Develop various components (apps/scripts/sites/recommendation engines)
• Conduct code reviews on completion of these components
• Design tests for your code
• Support the production environment

Reference number for this position is GZ42094  which is a permanent position based in Randburg offering a cost-to-company salary of R950,000 per annum  negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on [email protected] or call him on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.
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Posted on 10 Jun 12:58, Closing date 9 Aug