Senior Software Engineer

 FeedForward are looking for a full-time Senior Software Engineer for their Figaro music search and discovery products for the music, media and gaming industries. Your mission is to design and build systems that use machine learning to build the future of music search. You will collaborate with machine learning scientists and contribute to all parts of the agile product development lifecycle.




 The role


 
Work with web, cloud, and machine learning technologies
 
Design scalable systems and infrastructure
 
Extend and maintain our core APIs
 
Work with large audio and metadata datasets
 
Research new ways to deploy audio ML models
 
Collaborate with our research team
 
Write clean, tested, and maintainable code in multiple languages
 
Enhance a strong culture of innovation within the company
 
Communicate ideas and technical guidance to the wider team, and potentially also to board-level and client stakeholders


 About you


 
Required skills/experience:
  

   
Professional programming experience with Node.js or Python
   
Designed and deployed web-enabled software to production
   
Worked with AWS, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and Docker
   
Knowledge of Extreme Programming development practices (e.g. pair programming or TDD)
  
 
In addition, having any of the following is a bonus:
  

   
Built search / recommendation systems
   
Proficiency in at least one statically typed language
   
Knowledge of audio programming and production
   
Experience with machine learning libraries (e.g. Tensorflow)
   
Front-end programming skills (e.g. React.js)
  


 The package


 
£60,000-90,000: remuneration based upon experience
 
Hybrid / remote working
 
Flexible hours possible
 
Benefits including pension and share options