Job Description

Swae is an inclusive decision-making platform combining anonymity, AI and collective intelligence to help users collectively build powerful bottom-up solutions to influence the decision-decision-making outcomes, while helping organizations unleash the creativity of their stakeholders, discover unrevealed truth, data and well crafted bottom-up solutions, so they can make more intelligent decisions around products, services, policies, and strategy. Our 1.0 product has been a responsive web app supporting bottom-up ideation, inclusive innovation and bottom-up decision making inside some very large organizations. We have successfully integrated this 1.0 version into various types and sizes of organizations – from small and large multinational companies to local and national associations and organizations – in order to demonstrate operational and commercial viability.

Based on the learnings and insights garnered, we understand the limitations of this 1.0 and are now ready to build Swae 2.0. We’re looking for a high-caliber senior full-stack developer to help us with this.

This individual has strong expertise in Node.js, React, DevOps, and AWS.

This person will make sure new concepts are implemented correctly, are scalable, and are generating the right product results.

Initially, this is a 2-month contract position with a strong possibility of extension and conversion into a full-time role (including equity options) with the founding team.

Broad Responsibilities: 
• Web development, product and feature development and AI integration into web app 
• Sprint Planning 
• Rapid prototyping of abstract concepts 
• Writing high-quality, maintainable, scalable and reusable code and libraries for future use 
• Writing and maintaining documentation to describe program development, logic, coding, testing, changes, and corrections 
• Contributing to the design of new features and enhancement 
• Producing a clean, responsive, graphically-rich, functional and easy to use web UI without a dedicated designer 
• Writing and maintaining documentation to describe program development, logic, coding, testing, changes, and corrections

Qualifications & Requirements 
• min 5+ years full-stack experience, with experience architecting front-end logic and designing and building scalable applications from end-to-end 
• Portfolio of front-end work (Demonstrated experience in building simple-yet-powerful user interfaces) 
• Comfort with the entire web development process (design, development, deployment) 
• Strong proficiency in Node.js, React, NoSQL databases 
• Expert knowledge of Python, Django, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript 
• Enjoy writing unit tests 
• Experience with test driven and agile development methodologies 
• Expertise with AWS 
• Familiarity with several related libraries, frameworks and tools (e.g. Bower, Grunt, Git/GitHub, JSON APIs) 
• Demonstrated ability to write manageable, modular, and secure code along with automated unit tests 
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills 
• Ensuring product quality, maintainability, performance, scalability and extensibility

Extra Points 
• Experience working on data science, or any kind of AI/NLU/NLP projects (e.g. working experience in Python software development, Python Packages and Libraries) 
• Understanding of modern methods in NLP tasks and latest libraries, e.g. language recognition, stemming & morphological segmentation/parsing, text categorization, clustering, summarization etc. 
• Passion for inclusive decision-making, decentralization, institutional, political or organizational innovation and/or governance 
• Experience working in a startup environment

Key Traits 
• Energized by complex problems, working with new technologies and unconventional thinkers 
• Trustworthy, empathetic, and mature – ability to form meaningful working relationships 
• Strong sense of ownership. No excuses attitude to getting things done (founder mentality) 
• Hacker mentality; Comfortable with experimental approaches to product and feature development; enjoys prototyping, demonstrated through examples and portfolio 
• Hunger for knowledge. We encounter the unknown on a daily basis 🙂 
• Has track-record for picking up new technologies 
• Excellent communication skills 
• Have deep empathy for others 

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Job Description

Swae is an inclusive decision-making platform combining anonymity, AI and collective intelligence to help users collectively build powerful bottom-up solutions to influence the decision-decision-making outcomes, while helping organizations unleash the creativity of their stakeholders, discover unrevealed truth, data and well crafted bottom-up solutions, so they can make more intelligent decisions around products, services, policies, and strategy. Our first product, slated to ship in Q1 2019, is a responsive web app supporting bottom-up ideation, inclusive innovation and bottom-up decision making inside some very large organizations.

We’re initially looking for a high-caliber part-time senior candidate to join our team and act as an AI / NLP Researcher & Developer. Together with the CEO and technical lead, this self directed learner will be responsible for helping build a solid NLP pipeline, identifying and integrating relevant NLP/NLU algorithms into our product, building new models, and scoping out the development of new algorithms from the ground up.

This individual will share the responsibility with the founder for developing and advancing the research behind Swale and other NLP / NLU and machine learning-based components of Swae.

This individual considers themselves an AI and NLP expert with strong computer science fundamentals and experience building and applying machine learning algorithms and libraries. They have meaningful experiences in Python, including exposure to predictive statistics and machine learning algorithms.

This versatile and can-do individual is comfortable wearing both developer and researcher hats – helping grasp problems, experimenting, building prototypes and implementing the results in C# or Python code (at least at the proof-of-concept level).

This person will make sure new concepts are implemented correctly, are scalable, and are generating the right results/accuracy thresholds.
Initially, for the first ~6 months, this individual will help us improve our beta commercial product by identifying and integrating relevant NLP/NLU algorithms into our product, building new models, and scoping out the development of new algorithms from the ground up. During this phase, this role will be “hands on keys” as well as researching, writing deploying code and building prototypes of our concepts. After this phase, we expect this position to become a full-time role and potentially have managerial implications. Having an ability to hire and bring great technical people together on a team may be an important function of this role.

Broad Responsibilities

• Researching machine learning methods to solve challenging problems like language augmentation, document summarization, concept matching, etc.
• Developing, training and running machine-learning model
• Rapid prototyping of abstract concept
• Writing and maintaining documentation to describe program development, logic, coding, testing, changes, and corrections
• Helping to create reusable code and libraries for future use

Requirements
• 3+ years of professional experience in machine learning and natural language processing; 2+ years of working experience in Python software development, Python Packages and Libraries
• Understanding of modern methods in NLP tasks and latest libraries, e.g. language recognition, stemming & morphological segmentation/parsing, text categorization, clustering, summarization etc.
• Demonstrated ability to translating research into prototypes and testable models (through transfer learning methodologies, etc.)
• A knack for doing more with less
• Strong understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, deployment)
• Experience with supervised and unsupervised learning
• Experience in developing projects on AWS and Google Cloud
• A portfolio of AI / NLP / NLU projects to demonstrate

Qualifications
• Bch/MSs in NLP, ML, TM or Computational Linguistics.
• Excellent fundamentals in computer science, algorithms, and software design
• Ability to learn new technologies or concepts quickly and independently

Extra Points
• An M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• Passion for inclusive decision-making, decentralization, institutional, political or organizational innovation and/or governance
• Experience working in a startup environment

Key Traits
• Energized by complex problems, working with new technologies and unconventional thinkers
• Trustworthy, empathetic, and mature – ability to form meaningful working relationships
• Strong sense of ownership. No excuses attitude to getting things done (founder mentality)
• Hacker mentality; Comfortable with experimental approaches to product and feature development; enjoys prototyping, demonstrated through examples and portfolio
• Hunger for knowledge. We encounter the unknown on a daily basis 🙂
• Has track record for picking up new technologies
• Excellent communication skills

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