COMPUTER PROGRAMMER
Summary:
We are seeking a well-rounded Computer Programmer to join our company on a full-time permanent basis and contribute to our search technology development efforts while being based out of our development office in New Hope, PA. As part of a small team, you will be responsible for taking on various responsibilities and embracing the Agile development approach in order to help us continue to develop high-quality products by being involved in cross-functional discussions and driving new innovative ideas. This position reports directly to our VP of Development. You will be exposed to the design, development, and research on innovative linguistic-based technologies.
Preferred Skills and Abilities:
- Identify and understand business requirements for new or improved features
- Extend and modify PHP business logic and database persistence to support new end user, administrative, and reporting features.
- Build REST API endpoints to facilitate integration and secured flow of information between the web interface and back-end server code using PHP, Java and Spring Boot
- Research algorithms, develop training data sets, and produce predictive scoring and classification Machine Learning (ML) models
- Transform natural language raw data into meaningful language features using Natural Language Professing (NLP) techniques to produce inputs to the ML text classification algorithms for supervised and unsupervised learning
- Iterate until f-measure scores for recall/precision are acceptable according to gold-standard data
- Utilize ML scoring and classification models in core Java applications through REST API clients to expand available writing assignments and feedback
- Design and implement new Web user-interface elements for end users to display new and improved features using HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript/Angular.
- Write complex database queries to extract historical data for training sets and reporting, using SQL, PL/pgSQL (Postgres), DBeaver, and JPA
- Write programs to extract, process, and store data from various 3rd party data services/APIs and integrate them into the project application using PHP, Java, GraphQL and Maven
- Design and implement improved algorithms and methodologies to create scalable solutions to manage high levels of user traffic for the application.
- Review code for readability, compliance to coding standards, consistency, security, best practices, and to ensure that the feature is ready for formal testing
- Conduct unit and integration testing of existing and newly added features
- Debug programs, rewrite and redesign the source code to improve performance
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a directly related specialty Information Technology field is required.
- 1-3+ years of PHP software development experience is preferred: you must have excellent understanding of MYSQL and deep architectural understanding of PHP web applications & application servers [advanced educational accomplishments will also be considered].
- Good knowledge in some back-end technologies (i.e. Symphony, Laravel, Lucene, SQL, or others).
- Superior creative and innovative problem-solving skills.
- Initiative and the ability to work independently and especially in a team.
- Broad knowledge and understanding of the technologies related to search, linguistics applied to search, and Information Retrieval [IR] issues.
- Experience with technologies such as lucene, solr, or other IR technologies.
- Experience with the good and the bad of both successful and failed projects.
- Ability to slice and dice problems and tasks so they can be worked on by others and ability to mentor others (interns, rookies, and junior developers).
- Relaxed yet enthusiastic and motivated attitude towards the craft, company, and products.
Benefits:
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Short/Long-Term Disability
- Life Insurance
- ID Theft Protection
- 401K
- Tuition Reimbursement, paid training
Vantage Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer.