Job ID :
12398
Company :
Internal Postings
Location :
CHICAGO, IL
Type :
Contract
Duration :
4+ months
Salary :
Open
Status :
Active
Openings :
1
Posted :
06 Apr 2018
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PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES: 

List the activities the role requires on a regular basis. Identify the major end result the position is expected to achieve for each of these activities.
  • Consulting with internal stakeholders to understand technical needs, analyzing solution options and making a recommendation based upon your knowledge and experience
  • Understand machine learning techniques to support the personalization logic requirements required to support the shopping experience
  • Design and develop a solution to transfer product and order data between platforms
  • Create a data model to ingest new partners and new retail verticals
  • Collaborate with other teams across the organization (e.g., Data Science) to enable the better use and understanding of data
  • Work with other teams across the organization (e.g., eCommerce, Brands, Analytics) to develop data reporting and data requirements
  • Developing enterprise and consumer grade solutions
  • Gaining technical knowledge of software and open source technology stacks
  • Partnering with designers and user experience specialists to create consumer-first user experiences
  • Bridging the gap between elegant front-end design and existing enterprise backend architectures
KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE/COMPETENCIES: 

What skills and knowledge are required for this job? What type of and how much prior experience is required to do this job? 

Experience and Knowledge:
  • Previous professional experience working with Python, RabbitMQ, Django/ Flask, Rest Framework, Oauth, NLTK/SciKit and other Python packages
  • You have created and deployed microservices
  • Ability to use containers like dockers or kubernettes
  • Experience working with agile methodology & dev ops geared towards cloud
  • Strong knowledge of full stack development and Object Oriented development
  • Familiarity with IOT integrations (ex: Alexa skill development process)
  • Published apps, websites or other examples of solutions built
  • You have worked with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud (preferred)
  • You have front-end development experience: HTML5, JavaScript/ JQuery, CSS
  • Experience with Angular, node.js and templating engines like Handlebars, Ninja, or equivalent
  • You have worked with, and are proficient with Python ORMs; MVC pattern and frameworks; Rest API architecture, Postgres SQL and/or NoSQL databases like Cassandra (preferred) or Mongo
  • iOS development experience helpful but not required
  • Strong communication skills
  • Strong data engineering background with prior experience in large-scale distributed data processing platforms such as Kafka, Spark, Kinesis
  • A desire to learn and share your knowledge
  • 1 year retail industry experience developing or supporting enterprise retail systems
  • Familiarity with payment technologies such as Amazon Payments, Apple Pay, Stripe or Square
  • Basic knowledge of machine learning & data science algorithms
  • Familiarity with shopping cart technology
  • Minimum of Bachelor degree preferably in MIS or equivalent IT field experience required.