Application Technical Lead

TalentScout is a startup focused on revolutionizing the recruiting world through our first of a kind services and software recruiting platform.  Our data centric approach gives our clients the advantage they are looking for to win the right candidates, in this increasingly competitive market. TalentScout has its headquarter in the US and operations in Manila.
 
TalentScout is a looking for a savvy and seasoned Application Technical Lead who is passionate about developing innovative data-centric technology solutions.   You will be an integral member of the team leading the development of our revolutionary recruiting platform to deliver insightful recruiting intelligence.  You will be responsible for selecting, designing, developing and implementing the application comprised of Big Data, search, machine learning and AI components.  You will be continually challenged to grow and enhance your technical talent while seeing the benefits of your contributions real-time.  It is an exciting opportunity in an exciting field working with a great team towards a wonderful and promising vision!

Job Overview

• Define the software architecture vision and implement our backend and frontend systems to meet the challenging functional, scalability and reliability requirements of our fast-growing business.
• Work closely with Product Management to gather requirements and deliver creative solutions that meet needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, budget and realistic implementation schedules.
• Evaluate and select technology that meets product functionality requirements while ensuring supportability, scalability and reliability.
• Implement software verification and quality assurance procedures.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor and grow our team.
• See and present "the big picture", offer solutions to make it better.
• Be the technical ambassador of the team.
• Define, document and evangelize best practices with the team.

Qualifications

• Must have 5-7 years of experience in building high-throughput, low-latency, reliable applications, and web services in the Big data area
• Professional experience with programming in Java/Python/C++, or other languages
• Experience developing web applications
• Understanding of AWS ecosystem and delivering software in the AWS public cloud
• Experience with relational databases (e.g. MySql)
• NoSQL experience (e.g. Mongodb)
• Experience with columnar datastores (e.g. Redshift)
• Experience with Elasticsearch or SOLR
• Excellent SQL skills

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills, enabling transparency and coordination across multiple regional
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

 
Desired Qualifications

• Experience with CICD technologies
• Experience with test automation

• Experience with advanced analytics or machine learning