Your impact

It's all about the love for data combined with a love for programming! That, in combination with working on software that is changing the world of online shopping and its pricing. If you're an experienced individual who can take ownership of their work and believes in what they are building is going to have a great impact on the business and if you love building great services, hop on, this job is for you!

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to help us maintain and expand our proprietary dynamic pricing engine called Smart Pricing. It is a homegrown service that predicts the correct price point for a fashion item based on various signals attributed to the items as well as buying patterns of our users. It is the finest blend of superior algorithms and a carefully curated and managed data store and has been one of our highest value services to our customers. Now we are looking for a senior developer who can take it to the next level and beyond. If you love building a tech that can in effect turn the fortunes of a business, this role is for you!

Your responsibilities

Smart Pricing Engine is a platform that decides a definite price point of an item that gives the best chance to be sold. It covers reading different data points within the platform and being able to predict the best market price for a product with the help of ML modelling and algorithms. As a Senior ML Engineer you will be responsible for:

• Building and maintaining the Smart Pricing Engine and the demand forecast model
• Development of new features, maintaining the existing ones and monitoring model performance
• Modelling the right numerical metrics that capture the business goals
• Building the underlying data tables and pipelines using the best software and data engineering practices
• Coordinating with the team, stakeholders and active input into the roadmap from technical and business standpoint 

What you’ll bring to the team:

• 5 years’ experience building or working with machine learning algorithms
• Experience with prediction engines is ideal; fluency in SQL is a must-have
• Experience working with AWS, Databricks, DBT, Fivetran & Hightouch
• Experience with Python code, including packages and libraries such as pandas, numpy and PySpark 
• An understanding of different data modelling techniques, Spark and/or other distributed computing platforms.
• Experience with AWS ML tooling and ML Ops systems, causal ML models and time series forecasting
• Experience working in pricing, revenue management or go to market is a plus
• Knowledge of working in Agile and/or Scrum during the development process
• Strong communication and team/stakeholder collaboration skills 
• A knack for problem-solving and passion for technology
• Fluency in English and in SQL are must-haves 
• A sense of humour and strong table tennis skills (or a willingness to learn from the pros in the Tech department)
• A love of dogs always helps

What we offer you for being O-mazing:

• A competitive, market-rate salary (incl. holiday allowance) and a generous SAR package
• 25 days paid holiday per year - plus a day off on your birthday and 8 weeks Workation option!
• An open, spacious, plant-filled office on the waterside in the Houthavens
• Delicious bi-weekly office lunches - prepared by our lovely Hub & Culture Manager, Denise
• Mental and physical health support via a OneFit gym subscription discount and free, unlimited access to OpenUp
• Mac laptop and more handy tech - including setting up your home office via Workwize 
• And, of course, an incredible 35% Otrium employee discount!