Lead Engineer

Captify

Greater London

5 days ago

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Lead Engineer - ML and Data Engineering

We are looking for a Lead Engineer with experience in machine learning and a passion for leading people to lead our Contextual Segmentation Team. This team is responsible for bringing the power of search to enhance and create innovative solutions to segment internet pages and domains, as well as TV shows and episodes. To achieve this, you will lead a distributed team that has both software and ML engineers working together from various locations.

Working closely with the rest of the technical leadership team, the successful candidate will be comfortable collaborating with others to design the most effective systems.

Captify’s world-class engineers, semantic specialists and product teams are building the future of Search and as part of our Engineering Team, you will play a key part in developing our offering. We work in small cross-functional teams of developers who focus on a particular product area, and we encourage people to rotate across teams. Our product teams are underpinned and enabled by our platform team.

Our company values are important to us and influence how we work together. With exciting projects, technologies and services in the pipeline now is a great time to be part of our journey.

ABOUT YOU

You are a seasoned Lead Engineer with a strong background in machine learning and a passion for leadership. You have a proven track record of guiding distributed teams, with experience collaborating between software and ML engineers and delivering innovative segmentation solutions. With excellent problem-solving skills and a strategic mindset, you thrive in cross-functional environments, working closely with technical leadership to design and implement effective systems. Not only are you technically proficient but also an inspiring mentor, committed to driving excellence and innovation.

What you’ll be doing:

You will help architect and build an innovative search-powered contextual segmentation solution.
You will be responsible for designing and building the performance optimisation pipeline for the segmentation solution.
You will be responsible for maintaining and developing the Contextual TV solutions in the Company.
You will experiment with new tools and technologies to produce cutting-edge solutions to business and engineering problems.
You will lead a cross-functional, results-oriented team.
You will enable a culture of improvement and innovation in practices, process and technology.
Working with data science and the performance team to build hypotheses, design tests, monitoring and KPIs.

What you need to be successful:

Have the potential to build and lead a distributed team.
Experience with Machine Learning / Data Science.
Know our tech stack: Python, Scala, Spark, Flink, Kafka, Kubernetes, Databricks and AWS services.
Previous experience with git, CI and CD tools.
Passionate about internal quality, good code and effective technical practice.
Passion for continuously improving the team’s performance.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Advertising Services

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