Software Engineer

ModuleQ is a funded, early-stage startup on a mission to amplify the creativity of people and their organizations through applied artificial intelligence. Our people-centric platform uses AI data fusion technology like that used in self-driving cars to equip knowledge workers with relevant information in real time. Help us build and deliver an enterprise-grade solution to some of the world’s largest and most respected professional services companies.

As a Software Engineer, you’ll be an important contributor to our feature development, utilizing your expertise in Python to help build a proactive knowledge delivery service that anticipates a user’s needs by understanding their work trends and priorities. You’re comfortable working independently as well as supporting other team members. You’ll bring technical insights into how to refine and improve the system; ensuring performance, stability, and an exceptional end user experience. You’re pragmatic, tenacious, and comfortable with ambiguity.

Major challenges you will help us overcome include: transforming AI prototypes into production-ready machine learning systems; optimizing and integrating heterogeneous data flows through our system, from acquisition to end user delivery; customer deployment and integration strategy through Microsoft Azure; and improving scalability and robustness to handle demands of large enterprise customers.

You’ll thrive if you:

• Love innovation, experimentation, and learning from failure
• Adapt to changing business requirements and work in an agile environment
• Enjoy collaborating with teammates to enhance their productivity along with your own
• Want to help build a high-performing and collegial engineering team, in which you’ll have freedom to shape your evolving role
• Enjoy code reviews and care about maintaining and improving quality standards

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Engineer, test, and deliver features that drive user value
• Design and implementation of server-side Python code
• Manual and automated testing of the system
• Maintenance and update of existing code to improve quality and performance
• Troubleshoot and resolve bugs

You have practical experience with:

• Asynchronous programming in Python
• Scalable data pipelines, distributed message queues, and publish-subscribe architectures
• SQL and NoSQL databases
• Agile methodologies, DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Test Driven Development
• Source control using Git and the GitFlow branching model

Requirements

• At least 1 years of practical experience with Python
• 2+ years of software development experience
• BS or MS in Computer Science, or similar
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Comfortable working with a global team operating in multiple time zones

ModuleQ is a mission-driven organization. We’re seeking people who share our values:

• We make our customers more successful
• We manage corporate growth to support personal growth
• We treat each other with respect
• We use good judgement
• We act with the utmost integrity

We seek outstanding individuals from all backgrounds

Job Type: Full-time

Experience:

• software development: 2 years (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor’s (Preferred)

Job Location:

• Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN (Preferred)