Data Engineer

This is a test for all departments and teams in Austin, Texas.

Conversica has a strong engineering team that is committed to our customers, passionate about technology and motivated to succeed. We are driven, self-starting, resourceful, innovative, collaborative, and get a lot done while having fun. If that sounds like you, then read on! Conversica is building out the next generation of our artificial intelligence platform. We have the big picture, but there is much design work to be done and lots of code to write.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Develop services and applications in various system areas including machine learning, natural language processing, data analytics and third party data integrations
• Participate in design sessions about your services and applications
• Perform heads down development, test your code, and ship it to production
• Maintain and debug your services and applications in our production environment
• Work closely with our Product Management and our Customer Success teams
• Have fun, be fun, and get a lot done

Requirements

• 4+ years professional hands-on software development experience preferably with high-volume distributed systems experience
• Strong individual contributor with experience working with teams of 4+ engineers
• Strong coding and design skills with some exposure to micro-service-architecture (MSA)
• Knowledge of object-oriented methodologies, UML design techniques, event driven architectures, and other design patterns
• Demonstrable knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases
• Software development process background, preferably using Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban
• Ability to troubleshoot, performance tune, solve problems and write good unit tests
• Strong communication skills (both oral and written) with experience producing technical and design documentation
• Familiarity with open-source libraries/frameworks, preferably in Python, Java or PHP
• Understanding of XML, JSON and/or Web-services
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Experience with CRM and/or DMS systems is a plus.
• Experience with machine learning or artificial intelligence or data sciences frameworks is a plus