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Current openings


We're hiring for a number of different positions:


Engineering

Chief Technology Officer


Alien Ventures seeks for a Chief Technology Officer that leads the area of Engineering for HAP.


We are looking for a full-time CTO to work for a fast-growing, innovative product. We are looking for someone brilliant and intelligent, with experience and expertise. Someone who loves to stay on touch with new technologies and wants to create a revolutionary product with us.


  • Must have a very hands-on engagement in the design, development and deployment of the entire technology.
  • Must understand the business objectives and vision.
  • Will create a technical execution strategy which is fully in line with this business vision.
  • Product definition: competitive R&D of the project, do technical feasibility analysis and then create a product roadmap after accounting for a phased launch strategy.
  • Create supervise detailed user stories, specs and wireframes.
  • Involved in designing the architecture, make the high level and low level design of the components keeping in mind performance, scalability, modularity and best practice design paradigms.
  • Works with the development team sanitizing the project development plan to ensure that it is reasonable given the development costs and time. Know how resources are allocated and how the development is staged.
  • Works with the product owner to set the *necessary* process around SDLC like continuous integration, release cycles, unit testing, UAT etc.
  • Should look at the whole technology with an 'engineering eye for detail' and ensure that the product is 360 degree complete with respect to things like user feedback integrations, analytics/metrics. The platform must have the necessary api's to log and report data like peak throughput, errors, etc.
  • Work with the Devops to come up with an optimized deployment architecture – single –stack, sharded, master—slave, fail-over etc.
  • Regular study of product owners and user feedback and incorporating the changes back into the pipeline for an iterative product is also the right way to scale the product going forward.
  • Good understanding of network architecture: routers, firewalls, DMZ, VLAN, VPN, etc.
  • Good understanding of enterprise architecture and corporate solutions: user directories (LDAP, AD), identity management, collaboration solutions (shared resources, ofimatic, …), endpoint management, etc.
  • Familiarity with IT operation, management, evolution (ITIL)
  • Familiarity with information security vulnerabilities and risk management.
  • Familiarity with consumer privacy and compliance requirements.
  • Management of the company's systems.
  • Production control.
  • Installation and certifications.
  • Communication and marketing: represent the company in forums, events and technology fairs.
  • Leading the development of the IT action plan.
  • Manage the relationship with technological advisors.
  • Prepare technical documentation for competitions and grants.
  • Evaluate and contribute new technological approaches to the evolution of products.
  • Responsible for the operation and business continuity.
  • Products testing process.

Proven experience:


  • Working in IT sectors.
  • Designing and implementing complex data models and data analytics.
  • Managing large-scale web and mobile application initiatives.
  • Software architecture.
  • Database management systems.
  • Applications and web standards.
  • Web and Mobile application frameworks.
  • Design and development.
  • Internet protocols.
  • Machine learning.
  • Big Data.

CS degree or equivalent needed.


We offer

The freedom to lead our product and the big-picture architecture.
We expect critical thinking and a problem-solver.


We are focused on code quality, efficiency, readability, scalability, everything to solve our customer needs.


Compensation: €40k - €80k


Please apply here:


http://humanaffinityplatform.com/en/current-openings-cto/

ML – Machine Learning


Alien Ventures seeks for a Machine learning related area specialist for HAP.


We are looking for a full-time ML specialist to work for a fast-growing, innovative product.


We are looking for someone brilliant and intelligent, with experience and expertise.


Someone who loves to stay on touch with new technologies and wants to create a revolutionary product with us.


  • Machine learning related area specialist.
  • Neural networks or deep learning
  • Software development/engineering skills
  • Background in computer architecture and algorithms
  • Experience with performance analysis and optimisation
  • Know how to choose the right type of model for a particular problem having a diverse array of these at their disposal
  • For each model, understand the limitations and assumptions
    • How to tune and improve model performance
    • Use the right metrics to evaluate model accuracy
    • Proven experience working with specialized tools and packages for machine learning such as scikit-learn (Python), Spark ML, R, Mahout and so on.
    • Computer science or statistics background

CS degree or equivalent needed.


We offer

  • The freedom to lead our ML product architecture. We expect critical thinking and a problem-solver.
  • We are focused on code quality, efficiency, readability, scalability, everything to solve our customer needs.

Compensation: €30K – €50K


Please apply here:


http://humanaffinityplatform.com/en/carrers/current-openings-ml/

DS – Data Scientist


Alien Ventures seeks for a Data Scientist for HAP.


We are looking for a full-time ML specialist to work for a fast-growing, innovative product.


We are looking for someone brilliant and intelligent, with experience and expertise.


Someone who loves to stay on touch with new technologies and wants to create a revolutionary product with us.


  • Analysis. SQL for data extraction, R for data analysis.
  • Combinations of R and Tableau for data visualization.
  • Java / Scala Developer.
  • GIT.
  • Distributed parallel processing (MapReduce with Apache Spark / Hadoop)
  • Big Data Distributions: Cloudera, HortonWorks, MapR etc.
  • Distributed data processing in real time with Storm / Spark Streaming.

CS degree or equivalent needed.


We offer

  • The freedom to lead our DS product architecture. We expect critical thinking and a problem-solver.
  • We are focused on code quality, efficiency, readability, scalability, everything to solve our customer needs.

Compensation: €30K – €50K


Please apply here:


http://humanaffinityplatform.com/en/carrers/current-openings-ds-data-scientist/

DO – DevOps Engineer


Alien Ventures seeks for a DevOps Engineer for HAP.


We are looking for a full-time DO specialist to work for a fast-growing, innovative product.


We are looking for someone brilliant and intelligent, with experience and expertise.


Someone who loves to stay on touch with new technologies and wants to create a revolutionary product with us.


  • Help scale out and maintain infrastructure in both local and the cloud
  • Automate all aspects of our infrastructure from routine tasks to provisioning
  • Help maintain and grow a data pipeline handling large scale data
  • Work with developers and service providers to drive the issues to resolution during site instabilities
  • Proficiency with Linux system administration, including storage, networks, and software
  • Familiarity writing scripts (Python, Ruby, Bash etc.)
  • Experience with monitoring solutions (Nagios, New Relic, Pingdom etc.)
  • Server Experience administering webservers (Microsoft11S, Apache)
  • Basic knowledge of SQL, NoSQL and database design
  • Exposure to “big data” solutions such as Hadoop
  • Experience administering, troubleshooting, and optimizing distributed systems, runners, distributed databases, and more
  • Strong focus on efficiency, simplicity and maintainability
  • Desire to not only maintain but improve existing systems
  • Exceptional troubleshooting, diagnostic and problem solving skills
  • Mandatory: Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, etc.)

CS degree or equivalent needed.


We offer

  • The freedom to lead our DO product architecture. We expect critical thinking and a problem-solver.
  • We are focused on code quality, efficiency, readability, scalability, everything to solve our customer needs.

Compensation: €30K – €50K


Please apply here:


http://humanaffinityplatform.com/en/carrers/current-openings-do-devops-engineer/