Sr./Staff Software Engineer (Front End)- AI Team

Polly

Polly

Software Engineering, Data Science
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Sep 7, 2024
Who You Are:
You have 6+ years of software development experience under your belt and are looking for your next challenge in a hyper-growth, fast-paced, industry disrupting, SaaS company. You are excited to work with emerging technologies and modern tech stack with a collaborative engineering team, where you will have a direct impact in the delivery of first class software products. Your experience mentoring others, working with distributed systems, relational databases, and all things software development has prepared you to take your career to the next level.
Does this sound like you? If so, keep reading and apply today!

What you’ll do:

  • Lead and contribute to the system design for our AI/ML-based services
  • Develop, implement, and test prompting strategies for a variety of products over various LLMs
  • Analyze internal and external feedback and behaviors to continuously improve the quality of prompts and language output
  • Research and adopt best practices based on experience, analysis, and input from the broader software team.
  • Develop code that is highly readable, maintainable, and testable including documentation, excellent architecture, and automated testing
  • Actively participate in interviewing and evaluating new team members
  • Mentor junior members of the software engineering team in all aspects of software development across multiple projects with multiple customers
  • Prioritize your work and the work of others with a sense of urgency to ship products in time to have the desired business impact while balancing a quality mindset
  • Review code, help drive technical excellence through best practices and latest tools

What You Have:

  • Proven track record of success in large enterprise SAAS Software, distributed systems, scalability, data pipelines and continuous development
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 6-10 years’ experience OR Master’s degree and 5-7 years’ experience
  • Senior level skill-set with core programming languages (Python, Java, C#, C/C++, etc.) and front end languages (vue.js, typescript, react)
  • Experience working with distributed systems, inter-service communication protocols, and APIs (e.g. REST, NSQ, etc.)
  • Experience working with relational databases and SQL

Extras you bring to the table:

  • Experience building front ends for AI products
  • Foundational knowledge of Natural Language Processing(NLP) and Machine Learning tailored to a specific business need
  • Senior level experience working with Large Language Models such as GPT-3/4, ChatGPT, Claude, or CoHere
  • Experience with data quality and validation
  • Experience with AWS Glue and Redshift
  • Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, or Prefect
  • Experience in CI/CD
  • Experience with Data Science workflows (Databricks or other similar notebook based tech)
  • Experience querying big data using Spark, Hive, etc.

Why join Polly?

  • We are attacking a trillion-dollar market with gross inefficiencies and seeking to transform the way an entire industry operates
  • We have an experienced leadership team that previously built large and impactful platforms
  • Outstanding opportunity for professional growth and upward mobility
  • Direct engagement with the decision makers and senior business leaders
  • Competitive salaries
  • 100% paid medical/vision/dental/disability/life insurance
  • Flexible vacation
  • Hybrid environment
Let’s get to know each other.
Polly is transforming the mortgage industry with its modern, data-driven capital markets ecosystem. Banks, credit unions, and mortgage lenders nationwide trust Polly’s revolutionary Product and Pricing Engine (PPE), Loan Trading Exchange, and actionable data and analytics to automate and optimize the entire capital markets value chain, helping their secondary teams operate faster, smarter, and more profitably. Polly was founded in 2019 by a seasoned team of technology and mortgage experts and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
To learn more, follow Polly on LinkedIn or visit www.polly.io. Polly is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.