Software Engineer (Back End)
About You
Are you an independent, passionate technologist eager for your next opportunity?
Do you want to work for an innovative company that is just as invested in your progress? Then we want you!
About the Role
Software Engineers at Wazoku are responsible for developing and maintaining our SaaS platform and its integrations. As a Software Engineer focused on the AI module of Wazoku platform, you will collaborate closely with senior engineers, product managers, and data scientists to ideate and develop scalable solutions that solve business challenges. You will be responsible for developing clean, secure, well-documented, and performant code in Python/Django in the backend and collaborating with data scientists to integrate machine learning models into our platform.
The ideal candidate for this role will be familiar with Machine Learning and AI principles.
About Wazoku
Will you help to provide clean water to schools in Mexico? To find a better solution to protect astronauts? To invent the next multi-billion market breakthrough? At Wazoku, that’s exactly what we achieve as we; change the world, one idea at a time.
We do this through our enterprise innovation platform that help organisations to find that one person who has that one idea wherever they are to solve their smallest to biggest problems to generate solutions that truly change the world. We work with Global 2000 organisations from the likes of NASA to Nissan and GSK, helping them discover new products and services, continuous improvements, but also ways to sustain our planet.
Wouldn’t you want to be part of this? To be involved in a new breakthrough idea that helped change the world into a better place? If so – we would love to hear from you!
Responsibilities
· Collaborate with senior engineers, product managers, and data scientists to ideate and develop scalable solutions for Wazoku platform’s AI module
· Participate in planning and estimation of user stories
· Develop clean, secure, well-documented, and performant code with adequate test coverage using Python/Django in the backend
· Collaborate with QA to test code, troubleshoot issues, and resolve bugs
· Understand the fundamentals of Wazoku infrastructure
Requirements
· Understanding of data modeling, ML and AI principles, and ETL processes is advantageous
· Proficient in Python
· Proficiency in developing RESTful APIs using frameworks such as Django REST framework
· Proficient with Relational Database Design and SQL principles
· Attention to detail and a passion for writing clean and maintainable code
· Familiarity with NLP (natural language processing) techniques.
· Familiarity with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn
At Wazoku we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Nice to have
· Familiarity with DevOps principles
· Knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Azure.
· Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies
· Knowledge of distributed version control systems such as Git
What we offer
Although we work hard, we also recognise the importance of maintaining a proper integration of work/life priorities and providing a culture that encourages creativity and productivity. Our benefits include:
- $20+ USD contractual homeworking internet benefit
- Birthday day off
- Access to English lessons tailored to your needs
- Thanks Ben benefits, including $40 per month to spend on personal well-being.
- Excellent maternity and adoption policy – 18 weeks full pay and then a further 8 weeks at half pay if you wish to take it.
- Excellent Paternity pay – 4 weeks to be taken the year of the birth of the child, 4 weeks to be taken in the second year after the birth of the child.
- December one week shut down over the holiday period
- Mental Health Services
- Employee Referral Scheme – $500 bonus for every person you successfully refer
*Salary range $6,000,000 - $8,000,000 COP monthly depending on experience*
What happens next?
Our recruitment team will be in touch if you're successful so keep an eye on your emails! We'll arrange a short call to learn more about you, as well as answer any questions you have. If it feels like we're a good match, we'll share your CV with the hiring manager to review, and then be in touch to move to the next stage of the interview process.
- Interview with Recruitment Lead
- Technical Exercise Interview with Hiring Manager and team
- Panel Interview with some of the leadership team
Our interview process is tailored to each role. We will always look to make the adjustments you need to bring your best self to interview.
- Department
- Development
- Role
- Backend Developer
- Locations
- Colombia
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
About Wazoku
Our Mission is to Change the World, One idea at a time
Our vision is to be the world's leading innovation software company enabling problem solving at scale, helping people to find, capture and share ideas to improve our world
Software Engineer (Back End)
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