Principal Software Engineer

• Managing a frontend and backend devops pipeline with manual and automated components
• Managing the Oscer development team in an Agile environment
• Improving the NLU of our flagship medical education product at https://oscer.ai
• Designing NLP input data structures
• Developing algorithms for the training and operation of NLP systems
• Keeping up with the latest in NLP research and translating it into production ready code
• Creating backend APIs in python, Creating high-level algorithms for transactional APIs
• Scripting in python to perform complex data manipulation
• Researching new software and hardware options for our core business
• Researching new software and hardware options for our core business
• Performing cost benefit analyses of software & hardware acquisitions
• Planning for short term and long term organisational technological requirements
• Leading other technical projects within our parent company
• Helping to grow our dev team by sourcing and vetting candidates
• Mentor and guide each direct report through personal and performance management
• Collaborate with our amazing team of medical students, doctors and institutional partners to harness their collective knowledge in solving complex use cases and delivering meaningful impact.

Working with：

• Our NLU is custom, based loosely on rasa tuned for our needs
• Backend is python APIs implemented on top of django-rest framework
  Backend admin written in html + js
• Backend caching with redis
• Backend database postgres
• Frontend is react + redux, CRA (not custom webpack)
• Deployment backend on digital ocean k8s and frontend on AWS amplify
• Backend + NLU containerised with Docker

At a minimum you’ll need

• A demonstrated portfolio of NLP projects and experience
• Experience with our backend stack → Python (Django), postgres, rasa/NLP
• Experience with our frontend stack → React.js + Redux + SCSS
• Proficient with industry standard tools, or willing to learn them fast. Ie: Git, Docker, Bitbucket, Jira, Zeplin, Sketch etc.

Impress us with

• Experience in a medical field/industry, particularly in medical conversational AI
• Experience in a CTO/Principal Technologist role at a successful startup
• An innate sense for product design and customer market fit

Experience

• Python: 2 years (Required)
• NLU/NLP: 1 year (Preferred)
• js: 2 years (Required)
• Work Eligibility:
• Permitted to work permanently with no restriction on hours (e.g. citizen, permanent resident) (Preferred)
• Temporarily work remotely due to COVID-19

Oscer is creating software that assists medical students and doctors in their medical education. Our software uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to disrupt didactic medical education.