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Every few months we start completely new projects and dive into a completely new world. One day we learn the secrets of promotions in retail chains, another day we analyze satellite images, and then we get super interesting data from the residential market for analysis. Our projects are not only an opportunity to test our skills in difficult statistical, algorithmic, and technological problems but also an opportunity to learn how many different industries work from the inside.

Tech Stack that you can expect in Appsilon: R, Shiny, JavaScript, React.js, Python, Docker, Git, AWS, HTML, CSS/ Sass

We are growing fast and that’s why we are now looking for a new R/Shiny Developer to join our team. 

At Appsilon, you can expect a flat organizational structure. There are currently 30 of us in a tech team, and each person has their own specialization, so the selection of projects and people who work on client tasks is flexible and depends on who has time to take on additional tasks at any given moment. We have other R/Shiny specialists, Frontend Developers, Fullstacks and DevOps in our team – you will have the opportunity to meet and work with each of them. 

We are looking for a specialist whose experience and knowledge will enrich our team and allow us to take new, previously unknown directions.

Your tasks:

• • Design, develop, ship and maintain features without guidance. Implement clear, concise and tested code. Write unit tests. Perform rigorous code reviews that are recognized as helpful.
  • Take responsibility for Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment process or deployment process of the app (in the absence of automation).
  • Lead and deliver small projects and isolated parts of the larger project.
  • Communicate risks and possible delays in advance. Propose solutions to the communicated problems.

What we expect from you:

• • Experience in building advanced Shiny apps. 
  • Understanding of bottlenecks of R and engine of Shiny and sharing knowledge about it in the Team.
  • Implementing visually attractive apps based on the input from the UX/UI Designer
  • Experience in using unit testing as a natural technique for improving your code structure. Automates other tests such as end-to-end or performance tests.
  • Fluent written and verbal communication in English.

What’s in it for you:

• Up to 14.000 PLN/month +VAT on a B2B contract ($3500/month)
• 26 days of paid holidays + an equivalent of public holidays in Poland, est. 11 days in 2021
• +5% of salary in Personal Development Budget to spend on activities that help you grow
• Remote work with flexible working hours adjusted to your time zone and family life.
• 4 paid days per year to be used for training/conferences, events, or workshop
• Private health care insurance (in Poland) or equivalent
• Projects that have a real impact on the world. More on https://appsilon.com/data-for-good
• Opportunity to work with the prestigious brands where you can see how data science is used
• Opportunity to develop yourself as an independent Shiny expert in a data science community

What can you expect during the recruitment process?

• Screening call with Talent Manager
• Home assignment
• Interview with Hiring Manager
• Culture Fit Interview (we cherish our values, you can read about it more here: https://appsilon.com/careers/) 

Every few months we start completely new projects and dive into a completely new world. One day we learn the secrets of promotions in retail chains, another day we analyze satellite images, and then we get super interesting data from the residential market for analysis. Our projects are not only an opportunity to test our skills in difficult statistical, algorithmic, and technological problems but also an opportunity to learn how many different industries work from the inside.

Tech Stack that you can expect in Appsilon: R, Shiny, JavaScript, React.js, Python, Docker, Git, AWS, HTML, CSS/ Sass 

At Appsilon, you can expect a flat organizational structure. There are currently 30 of us in a tech team, and each person has their own specialization, so the selection of projects and people who work on client tasks is flexible and depends on who has time to take on additional tasks at any given moment. We have other R/Shiny specialists, Frontend Developers, Fullstacks and DevOps in our team – you will have the opportunity to meet and work with each of them. 

We are looking for a specialist whose experience and knowledge will enrich our team and allow us to take new, previously unknown directions.

You will:

• • Build advanced, high-quality Shiny apps independently, especially for large customers.
  • Handle a role of a Project Leader in medium and Technical Leader in big sized projects. You’ll be independently responsible for the entire lifecycle of projects or features including design, development, end-to-end testing and deployment. You’ll take responsibility for team results. 
  • Mentor other contributors in various areas of software craftsmanship. 
  • Take initiative in improving how we work across projects. Take responsibility for our engineering maturity and quality.
  • Own Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment process and its improvement as well as introduction of automation to this process and keeping it up to date with the world standards
  • Communicate with the client, proactively identify problems with requirements and communicates these issues early
  • Delegate tasks to others and evaluate the delivery. 

What we expect from you:

• • Experience in building advanced Shiny apps, especially for large customers. 
  • Understanding of limitations of R and Shiny and proposing ideas on how to overcome them. You should have knowledge of advanced mechanisms of Shiny (e.g. bindings, registerDataObj, performance, promises, single-threading, etc.) and effectively use it in practice.
  • Knowledge of how to scale Shiny to 1000s concurrent users. Contribution to performance optimization on different levels (frontend, backend, infrastructure). Understands the way Shiny uses WebSockets. 
  • Experience in implementing visually impressive apps independently from a Graphic Designer
  • Experience in extending Shiny apps with advanced functionalities e.g. using custom bindings, JS events in Shiny, JS-Shiny communication, Web Components, etc.
  • Experience in delivering solutions known for high quality thanks to well balanced test pyramid. 
  • Fluent written and verbal communication in English.

What’s in it for you:

• Up to 19,000 PLN/month +VAT on a B2B contract ($4800/month)
• 26 days of paid holidays + an equivalent of public holidays in Poland, est. 11 days in 2021
• +5% of salary in Personal Development Budget to spend on activities that help you grow
• Remote work with flexible working hours adjusted to your time zone and family life.
• 4 paid days per year to be used for training/conferences, events, or workshop
• Private health care insurance (in Poland) or equivalent
• Projects that have a real impact on the world. More on https://appsilon.com/data-for-good
• Opportunity to work with the prestigious brands where you can see how data science is used
• Opportunity to develop yourself as an independent Shiny expert in a data science community

What can you expect during the recruitment process?

• Screening call with Talent Manager
• Home assignment
• Interview with Hiring Manager
• Culture Fit Interview (we cherish our values, you can read about it more here: https://appsilon.com/careers/) 

About this role

We invest part of our profits into Data4Good projects and offer our service in ML and Shiny on reduced rates or pro-bono. We are committed to make investments and support researchers in doing high impact work in Biodiversity and Climate Change. We care about the impact that our work has on the world around us.

We are looking for a Data4Good Lead who will drive those efforts and impact.

Some examples of our #Data4good work includes contributing to animal preservation in Gabon Parks, building Lyme and Tickborne Disease Dashboard with JHU, and improving performance of a COVID dashboard for Doctors Without Borders.

We are a global leader in R and Shiny, which are used by companies of all sizes to build analytical applications. We have a ML team that does SOTA research in Computer Vision.

By joining Appsilon at this stage you get a unique opportunity to have a meaningful impact on the company and its culture.

You will

• Build growth engine for Data4Good (D4G)
• Do New Business Development for Biodiversity in ML [short and long term] and Shiny [long term]
• Be an owner of Data4Good Bench Time Backlog – make sure to source opportunities on which our team can work on when on a bench time
• Build relationships with sustainability departments of our existing customers
• Align Sales and Growth efforts to grow Data4Good inbound and outbound
• Facilitate with Head of People internal and external events related to our D4G
• Work closely with our ML Lead and company board on strategic direction of D4G

Our goals for next year

• Commercial project/or from grant for ML team for H2 ‘22 in Biodiversity
• Short 2-3 POCs for ML team in Biodiversity in H1 `22 that would help us build credibility
• Promote the results in the social and mass media
• Increase impact of Mbaza project
• Create strategy for Shiny in D4G (together with Engineering Manager)
• Grow the share of purpose-aligned billable projects

Must haves

• Previous experience in building new business and partnerships by inbound and outbound and track record of delivering on increasing targets.
• High alignment with Appsilon Data4Good mission and priorities (now Biodiversity)
• Experience in coordinating cross-team efforts – you will operate between tech-team, growth and sales
• Experience is building strategy for new Line of Business
• Willingness to learn about R/Shiny capabilities and ML applications in selected D4G areas
• Strong networking skills
• English C1 written and spoken
• At least 4 hour overlap with 9-17 CET working hours

Nice to haves

• Previous experience in Machine Learning
• Eagerness to represent Appsilon on international conferences and events as a speaker

Appsilon gives you

• Competitive salary – option to work on employment contract or contract
• 26 days of paid holidays + an equivalent of public holidays in Poland, est. 11 days in 2021
• +5% of salary in Professional Development Budget to spend on activities that help you grow
• 33 days (paid 80%) per year on B2B when on a sick leave
• Remote work
• 4 paid days per year to be used for training/conferences, events, or workshops for your professional development
• Private health care insurance (in Poland) (Polmed)
• Life insurance
• FitProfit or FitSport membership card (in Poland)
• AskHenry – a personal assistant works great in large Polish cities, elsewhere limited to online support

What can you expect during the recruitment process?

1. Screening call with Talent Manager
2. Home assignments – questions regarding role’s areas of responsibility
3. Interview with Hiring Manager and ML Lead
4. Conversation with the CEO

 
Every few months we start completely new projects and dive into a completely new world. One day we identify species of monkeys lurking behind trees of a rainforest, another day we analyze satellite images to help mitigate natural disasters, and then dive into the arctic ocean, helping researchers understand the changes in those ecosystems. Our projects are not only an opportunity to test our skills in difficult statistical, algorithmic, and technological problems but also an opportunity to learn about different research fields and, most importantly, contribute to their advancement.
 

Some examples of our past projects:

1. Open source wildlife detection app, built for usage in remote areas
2. Analysis of damage after natural disasters based on satellite images: https://demo.appsilon.ai/apps/building_damage_assessment
3. We took 5/811 place in the Hakuna Ma-data competition
4. A research paper applying machine learning in ecological modelling

Your Role as a Machine Learning Engineer

 
Regular duties will include:
 

• Preparing data
  • Collecting, curating, possibly preprocessing a dataset

 

• EDA – exploratory data analysis
  • Understanding and visualizing statistical properties and peculiarities of the dataset

 

• Modelling
  • Running and monitoring model’s training
  • Investigating the model’s performance, identifying strong and weak points

 

• Pipeline setup and improvements
  • Making sure the process above is modular and reproducible

 

• Handling meetings with the client / partner
  • Sharing results, challenging assumptions, understanding the role of ML in their workflow

Helpful skills and experience

• Hard skills
   
  • Great Software Engineering background
  • Extentensive Python knowledge
  • Experience with PyTorch or Tensorflow
  • Experience in data wrangling
  • Experience with machine learning pipelines and experiment reproducibility

 
• Soft Skills
   
  • Trained analytical thinker
  • Able to switch between hacker mentality of getting things to work and organized engineer adhering to basic principles when refactoring or building key pipeline elements
  • Able to abstract from technical issues and communicate also on high level
  • At least B2 level of English

What’s in it for you?

• Salary 10000 – 16000 PLN + VAT on B2B contract
• 26 days of paid holidays + an equivalent of public holidays in Poland, est. 11 days in 2021
• +5% of salary in Professional Development Budget to spend on activities that help you grow
• 33 days (paid 80%) per year on B2B when on a sick leave
• Remote work with flexible working hours adjusted to your time zone and family life.
• 4 paid days per year to be used for training/conferences, events, or workshops for your professional development
• Private health care insurance (in Poland) (Polmed)
• Life insurance
• FitProfit or FitSport membership card (in Poland)
• AskHenry – a personal assistant works great in large Polish cities, elsewhere limited to online support
• Projects that have a real impact on the world. More on https://appsilon.com/data-for-good/

Technologies and tools you will be using

• All sorts of Pythonic tools for
• • Data processing – pandas, numpy, Pillow, opencv,
  • Data visualisation – matplotlib, seaborn, plotly,
  • Modelling – PyTorch (and fast.ai), TensorFlow (and Keras), scipy,
  • Experiment tracking – Weights&Biases, Neptune, Domino, Tensorboard,
  • Dashboards – rather limited, but still maybe sometimes – streamlit, django, starlette,

• Occasionally R world
  • Mostly to interface with Shiny dashboards
  • Possibly if data source/preprocessing was implemented in R by a client

• Code tools (GitHub/GitLab, your favourite IDE, sometimes RStudio)
• General tools (bash/shell)
• Internal tools (Slack, Outline, Clickup, G Suite)

What can you expect during the recruitment process?

1. Screening call with Talent Manager
2. Home assignment
3. Interview with the ML Team
4. Conversation with the CTO

We want to work with ambitious and motivated people who feel ownership over their work and love to learn new things. We are constantly growing and developing as a company. If you believe that your unique skills and experience can help us, write to us.

Attach your CV and include a cover letter with answers to the following questions:

• What skills would you contribute to our team? What are your areas of expertise?
• What makes you unique? How do you stand out from other applicants?
• How would you like to influence the development of our company?
• Why do you want to work with Appsilon?
• Tell us about one interesting tool, trick, or hack that you’ve learned about recently.
• What are your salary expectations?

If your application meets all the requirements above, it will be reviewed directly by our CEO.

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