Loomia, a leader in the recommendations and personalization space, is looking for a Senior Application Engineer with expertise in algorithms, recommendations and/or statistics who is passionate about designing and building the next generation recommendations delivery platform. You will be part of a small group of talented engineers building the features and infrastructure components used by high volume sites to deliver personalized content from multiple sources to hundreds of millions of people on multiple delivery platforms (web, phone, iptv and more). We have an established product with a lot of demand and you should want to solve interesting problems that directly impact the company’s success.

The ideal candidate is has a proven track record of delivering production quality software in high volume environments and also has a background in "recommendations sciences". Our patented recommendation technology needs bright minds to keep it going. If technology is your passion and algorithm development excites you, then Loomia is the place for you.

Essential Responsibilities

As a key member of the development team, you will help create an overall technical vision for our platform and the core recommendation engine. The position will require original algorithm design, a strong data analysis background and the ability to turn your ideas into complete solutions. You will lead and mentor mid and junior level application engineers throughout the design and development phases. Having a solid foundation of software engineering best practices and the ability to put them to use will be key for this role. As the team grows, your ability to champion improvements in our system architecture as well as our processes for software development will be critical. You will work closely with product management and QA to ensure succesful delivery of your software.

We are an Open Source, LAMP shop so you should be confident you can excel in that type of environment. We code in python, but we are looking for  a great developer and not a python expert. We expect that an experienced programmer can learn a language like python in a few weeks.