Senior Software Engineer, California

Software Resources has an immediate job opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer with a major corporation in Santa Monica, CA. 4 days per week on-site, 1 day remote.

Duration: 4 month(s)

Pay Rate: $80 - $86/hr DOE

Tech Skills:

" 5+ years of experience

Databricks experience

Spark experience

Data Modeling in general

Airflow

Scala or Python

Description:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Discovery, Merchandising & Experimentation Data team, part of Commerce, Data & Identity. This team is directly responsible for several critical data products and services that power personalization, content campaigns, and A/B testing across our streaming platforms. The ideal candidate for this role will have a strong technical background and is passionate about designing and building systems to process data at scale to provide business value and unlock powerful insights. Our tech stack includes AWS, Databricks, Airflow, Spark, and languages include Scala, Python, Kotlin and Typescript.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

Contribute to the design and growth of our Data Products and Services enabling personalization and experimentation at petabyte scale, working across the stack from big data to backend services and APIs

Maintain detailed documentation of your work and changes to support data quality and data governance

Work with stakeholders and partner teams to identify and solve business needs in the domain of data and data access, particularly in the space of using experimentation and data to improve our product and customer experience

Ensure high operational efficiency and quality of your solutions to meet SLAs and support commitment to our customers

Be an active participant and advocate of agile practice to ensure health and process improvements for your team

Basic Qualifications:

5+ years of software or data engineering experience

Familiarity with data pipelines and orchestration frameworks (Spark, Hadoop, Databricks, Airflow)

Demonstrated expertise in modeling data to support business needs at scale

Strong programming skills in Java, Scala or Python

Knowledge of data warehouse solutions, including Databricks and Snowflake, with the ability to weigh the tradeoffs when choosing a technology

You are a problem solver with strong attention to detail and excellent analytical and communication skills, who will collaborate to build greenfield solutions with high business value

Preferred Qualifications:

Understanding of techniques for generating personalized recommendations, and how to prepare data to be consumed by machine learning pipelines

Experience working with A/B testing, bandits, or other mechanisms for measuring product performance in a controlled fashion

Experience with: Java, Scala, Python, Databricks, Airflow, AWS, Snowflake

Required Education:

Bachelor's Degree + 5 years of relevant experience

About Software Resources

Software Resources, founded more than 3 decades ago, is a trusted staffing partner specializing in Technology (IT, Creative, & Marketing), Finance, & Accounting placements. We work with companies nationwide that need skilled professionals and connect them with candidates like you looking for the right opportunity.

We are always looking for professionals at all experience levels and in various specialties to meet our clients' hiring needs. As a member of our team, you will have access to benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) with company match, short-term disability, life insurance with AD&D.

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