What skills and qualifications do I need?For this role, it is essential that you have:
- M.Sc. (PhD. a plus) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field
- 2+ years of experience in managing research, data science or engineering teams with good interpersonal skills
- 4+ years of work experience in developing end-to-end data science solutions and pipelines as a leader or major contributor
- Great problem solving and critical thinking abilities
- Positive attitude and high communication abilities
- Ability to mentor and give constructive feedback to their team members, that will help them achieve their career goals
- Ability to make solid decisions based on the availability of resources and technical difficulty of the tasks
Nice to have:
- Experience in developing models using deep learning techniques and tools
- Experience in developing software within a distributed computation framework
What will I be doing on a day-to-day basis?As a Algorithm Team Lead, you will:
- Influence directly the way billions of people discover the internet
- Lead a team of professionals that will lead innovative solutions to new products in Taboola
- Be responsible for the entire machine learning life-cycle in the company: staying up to date with academic advancements, prototyping of new ideas, and implementing machine and deep learning based algorithms in a high scale production environment
- Be responsible for the career growth of employees in your team
- Actively participate in the development process working closely with all stakeholders
- Get exposed to new technologies and utilize them to construct and improve scalable production-grade solutions that impact the business
- Be part of the algorithmic management team which is in charge of our growth and defining our development practices
- Apply your scientific knowledge and creativity to analyze large volumes of diverse data and develop algorithms to solve complex problems
Python, Keras, Java, TensorFlow, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, HDFS, ElasticSearch, AirFlow, BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes and Docker
You will work with:
- The people who wrote the first lines of code in Taboola (and many many more lines after that)
- The proud owner of a beer brewery
- People who are deeply familiar with the code of Kafka, Cassandra, AirFlow, Prometheus and Spark (including committing back)
- Famous internal Taboola hackathon winners
- The designers and implementers of a offheap, zero GC, Custom Kafka Producer which cumulatively sends ~100B messages / day
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