Senior Full Stack Developer

Motion Recruitment - Minneapolis, MN

Full-time - Mid Level

Minneapolis, MN

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Senior Full Stack Developer will play a crucial role in operationalizing machine learning and optimization models within a leading airline company. This position involves collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team to develop and integrate data science applications, ensuring successful deployment and performance optimization of software products. The role is a 12-month contract based in Minneapolis, MN, with a hybrid work model.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Data Scientists and Data Engineers to operationalize machine learning and optimization models that deliver new insights to the business
• Build data APIs and data delivery services that support critical operational and analytical applications for internal business operations, customers, and partners
• Take responsibility for ensuring that model code, data pipelines, APIs, and user interfaces are developed and deployed successfully into production
• Troubleshoot issues that arise and support production applications
• Continuously integrate code into on-premise and AWS cloud environments
• Transform data science prototypes into 'production-ready' software products
• Ensure a good data flow between database and backend systems
• Optimize solutions for performance and scalability
• Ensure that the methodology, standards, and procedures are implemented
• Ensure that solutions meet the customers' business goals and that customer satisfaction with the project and conclusion is high
• Coordinate activities with internal and external technology service providers
• Consult within project team members, other teams, and outside vendors or consultants to ensure product integrity
• Coach and mentor other developers on the team

Requirements

• BS/MS degree, preferably in a technical or scientific field
• 5-7 years of hands-on experience designing, developing, integrating, and running business, big data and/or data science applications
• 1-2+ years of hands-on experience working with AWS as a developer
• Experience developing Angular applications
• Experience developing with Java, SQL and building REST APIs
• Experience working with AWS services with an emphasis on managed services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, EventBridge, Step Functions, Aurora, S3, and API gateway
• Experience developing infrastructure-as-code using AWS tools (e.g., Cloud Development Kit, Cloud Formation)
• Experience with automating application deployment, continuous delivery, and continuous integration (Git, GitLab, Jenkins)
• Experience using Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience with backlog management tools (e.g., VersionOne, JIRA)
• Strong problem-solving skills and capability to understand and set direction for complex technology integration

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with design patterns and implementation for machine learning and data science products
• Experience with design patterns and implementation using microservices architecture
• Understanding or experience with loose coupling of front-end modules on AWS
• Experienced with deploying and managing infrastructures based on Docker, OpenShift, and AWS
• Knowledge of data engineering and experience with big data
• Experience with Redux / Flux / NgRx store implementation
• Experience developing, testing and deploying APIs using Python-based frameworks such as Flask, FastAPI and/or GraphQL
• Experience writing complex SQL queries (e.g., queries involving joins and subqueries) and experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL and AWS DynamoDB preferred)
• Experience working with AWS Machine Learning tools (e.g., AWS SageMaker)
• Experience with data visualization frameworks such as D3
• Understanding and focus on business outcomes
• Strong teamwork skills
• Functional knowledge of the airline business or airline IT processes