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Muck Rack | Senior Machine Learning Engineer | Remote | Full-time | https://muckrack.com

Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. Our mission is to enable organizations to build trust, tell their stories, and demonstrate the unique value of earned media. Muck Rack’s AI-powered, comprehensive, and integrated platform streamlines the PR workflow to help businesses generate positive media coverage, monitor mentions to manage brand reputation, and analyze PR’s impact on business outcomes. By combining media database, monitoring, and reporting into one dynamic platform, we empower teams to collaborate seamlessly, pitch effectively, and analyze results faster and more efficiently.

Founder-controlled, fully distributed, and growing sustainably, Muck Rack has received several awards for its unparalleled culture and product from organizations like Inc., Quartz, G2, and BuiltIn. We value resilience, transparency, ownership, and customer devotion, and infuse these values into everything we do.

We’re looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our quickly growing team and make a big impact.

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in the Tech org, you’ll work closely with data scientists, software engineers, product managers, and designers, to develop Machine Learning technologies which help simplify the jobs of our users. You’ll work on major technical projects with large data volumes, lead the building of new features, and help shape our engineering culture and processes. Our technology team is focused on scale, quality, delivery, and thoughtful customer experience.

To be set up for success in this role, you’ll need to have: - 5+ years total professional experience building Machine Learning products within user-facing software apps - A capacity for a high degree of autonomy and out-of-the-box thinking - A commitment to collaborating closely with other engineers and across functions

If any of the below also describe you, this could be an exciting opportunity: - Worked on a complex, high-traffic site at a startup or software-as-a-service company, ideally with large amounts of data - Experience with text modeling, NLP, and large language models - Experience serving GPU-intensive models in large-scale production environments - Interest in search - Interest in journalism, news, media or social media

https://muckrack.com/careers/openings?gh_jid=7464244002

Muck Rack | REMOTE (USA & Canada) | Senior Frontend, Backend, Platform Engineers

Muck Rack (https://muckrack.com), a fully-remote, self-funded SaaS company building tools for public relations and communication professionals, is hiring Senior Software Engineers. You’ll work with fellow software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and designers to execute major technical projects on Muck Rack, lead the building of new features, and help shape our engineering culture and processes.

We have a startup environment with engaging technical challenges, quick decision-making, heaps of data, an emphasis on simplicity and usability, a strong focus on delivery and customer devotion, and a dedication to creating a great place for engineers to work.

Relevant stack bits: Python 3, Django 3, MySQL 8, ElasticSearch 7, Vue, Scrapy, Webpack, and AWS.

More details:

* Platform: https://grnh.se/6b95ef072us

* Backend: https://grnh.se/4ee90f802us

* Frontend: https://grnh.se/7d10d4de2us

We encourage candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply. We understand job requirements often don't allow your particular work history to shine, and we invite you to show us what you know, and how it relates to our technology. We are an equal opportunity employer.

Muck Rack | REMOTE (USA & Canada) | Senior Frontend, Backend, Platform Engineers

Muck Rack (https://muckrack.com), a fully-remote, self-funded SaaS company building tools for public relations and communication professionals, is hiring Senior Software Engineers. You’ll work with fellow software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and designers to execute major technical projects on Muck Rack, lead the building of new features, and help shape our engineering culture and processes.

We have a startup environment with engaging technical challenges, quick decision-making, heaps of data, an emphasis on simplicity and usability, a strong focus on delivery and customer devotion, and a dedication to creating a great place for engineers to work.

Relevant stack bits: Python 3, Django 3, MySQL 8, ElasticSearch 7, Vue, Scrapy, Webpack, and AWS.

More details:

* Platform: https://grnh.se/6b95ef072us

* Backend: https://grnh.se/4ee90f802us

We encourage candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply. We understand job requirements often don't allow your particular work history to shine, and we invite you to show us what you know, and how it relates to our technology. We are an equal opportunity employer.

Muck Rack | REMOTE (USA & Canada) | Senior Frontend, Backend, Platform Engineers

Muck Rack (https://muckrack.com), a fully-remote, self-funded SaaS company building tools for public relations and communication professionals, is hiring Senior Software Engineers. You’ll work with fellow software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and designers to execute major technical projects on Muck Rack, lead the building of new features, and help shape our engineering culture and processes.

We have a startup environment with engaging technical challenges, quick decision-making, heaps of data, an emphasis on simplicity and usability, a strong focus on delivery and customer devotion, and a dedication to creating a great place for engineers to work.

Relevant stack bits: Python 3, Django 3, MySQL 8, ElasticSearch 7, Vue, Scrapy, Webpack, and AWS.

More details:

* Frontend - https://grnh.se/7d10d4de2us

* Backend - https://grnh.se/4ee90f802us

* Platform - https://grnh.se/6b95ef072us

We encourage candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply. We understand job requirements often don't allow your particular work history to shine, and we invite you to show us what you know, and how it relates to our technology. We are an equal opportunity employer.

1 point by lsemel 29 days ago | parent | favorite | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)

Muck Rack | New York or Remote | https://muckrack.com Muck Rack is looking for talented people to join our fast-growing tech startup in New York. Our mission is to make journalists, PR pros and marketers more successful. Muck Rack offers tools that help media professionals find and contact the most relevant journalists for their stories, and monitor how their stories perform.

Muck Rack offers a very flexible remote working policy. We believe if you let responsible people handle their own work on their own priorities and timeline, not only will you produce better work, but you will be a happier employee!

We are devoted to our wonderful customers, transparent with one another, take ownership over our work, and remain resilient when presented with challenges.

We offer eligible employees access to quality health insurance and 401(k) plans, equipment purchases, a generous vacation policy, personal development, and more.

Our tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, Redis, Elasticsearch, Nginx, Gunicorn, Varnish, and Ansible

We have several open positions including:

- Senior Software Engineer https://muckrack.com/job/14/senior-software-engineer

- Front End Developer https://muckrack.com/job/10/front-end-web-developer

- Product Designer https://muckrack.com/job/38/product-designer-uiux

Muck Rack | New York or Remote | https://muckrack.com

Muck Rack is looking for talented people to join our fast-growing tech startup in New York. Our mission is to make journalists, PR pros and marketers more successful. Muck Rack offers tools that help media professionals find and contact the most relevant journalists for their stories, and monitor how their stories perform.

Muck Rack offers a very flexible remote working policy. We believe if you let responsible people handle their own work on their own priorities and timeline, not only will you produce better work, but you will be a happier employee!

We are devoted to our wonderful customers, transparent with one another, take ownership over our work, and remain resilient when presented with challenges.

We offer eligible employees access to quality health insurance and 401(k) plans, equipment purchases, a generous vacation policy, personal development, and more.

Our tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, Redis, Elasticsearch, Nginx, Gunicorn, Varnish, and Ansible

We have several open positions including:

- Senior Software Engineer https://muckrack.com/job/14/senior-software-engineer

- Front End Developer https://muckrack.com/job/10/front-end-web-developer

- Product Designer https://muckrack.com/job/38/product-designer-uiux

Muck Rack (https://muckrack.com) | New York, NY

Muck Rack is a fast-growing SaaS platform for PR teams to effectively find the right journalists for their stories, send customized pitches, collaborate as a team, quantify their impact, and more. We index millions of articles from news outlets around the world. Fortune 500 brands, agencies and startups rely on Muck Rack to manage relationships with the media and boost coverage. We plan to develop several new services this year, and to do that we need to expand our tech team, starting with hiring a VP Engineering.

We’re looking for a VP Engineering with experience scaling an engineering team from 10 to 20 members, someone with good ideas on how to best organize the team as it scales, and who has experience managing remote teams (some of our staff work remotely, and we offer remote to all employees). This will also mean defining and enforcing process and policy as well as deciding the services and technologies we use for development.

We expect you to be capable of hands-on work but we would target an 80/20 split between management and coding. As a manager, you’ll be expected to help your team not only at a technical level and through code reviews, but to advance their careers and streamline their working environment.

Along with engineering you will oversee the infrastructure team and must be comfortable with cloud infrastructure, specifically AWS or GCP, and have had experience efficiently scaling, storing and processing large amounts of data.

This will be a job where you’ll wear many different hats—so we’re only looking for candidates that are comfortable being flexible! You should be able to talk to security, infrastructure, app development and management equally. At the same time we would expect you to weigh in on product decisions and have a business sense that can guide your engineering decisions.

Finally, we want to fill this role because we’re planning for the future. We are a profitable, bootstrapped company that is founder owned, with no VC’s to appease. You will not be coming in to put out fires, but to help us build an amazing company.

Tech

Our tech stack includes Python, Django, MySQL, Celery, Redis, Elasticsearch, Nginx, Gunicorn, Varnish, and Ansible. We don’t expect you to have perfect coverage across these, but do expect that you’ll be able to speak to each core technology.

More info and how to apply: https://muckrack.com/job/36/vp-of-engineering

Muck Rack (https://muckrack.com) is looking for talented developers to join our fast-growing tech startup. You’ll be working alongside the CTO and engineering team, and with product managers and designers, to execute major technical projects on Muck Rack, lead the building of new features, and help shape our engineering culture and processes.

Our tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, SASS, Redis, Elasticsearch, Nginx, Gunicorn, Varnish, and Ansible.

Muck Rack is a remote first company. While we maintain an office in SoHo, NYC, everyone can choose where and when to work, whether it's in the office, at home, in a cafe, or on the beach. Many of our NYC team members spend part of their time working at home. All of our meetings can be attended via video conference, so those not in the office won't miss out. We make use of online tools that facilitate a distributed team, such as Trello, Slack, and Google Hangouts, to name just a few. We're looking for people in any location, whose schedule can overlap at least 4 hours with business hours (9-5) in New York.

You'll be successful if you:

- Have significant experience working on a complex, high-traffic site, particularly at a startup or software-as-a-service company.

- Have extensive experience with Django, Python, and other software in our tech stack, with a willingness to learn in those areas where you have less experience.

- Enjoy working with and collaborating with designers, UX experts, and product managers to create outstanding features.

- Have experience leading other engineers to ship major features on schedule.

- Enjoy helping others grow as developers and become successful.

- Take pride in the quality of the code you write. Your code is readable, testable, and understandable six months later. You adhere to the Zen of Python.

- Are able to manage complexity in a large project, and incur technical debt only after considering the tradeoffs.

- Work well in a fast-paced development environment with testing, continuous integration and multiple daily deploys.

- Can work well with remote developers.

- Have amazing problem-solving skills.

- Are interested in journalism, news, media or social media.

About the Company

Muck Rack's mission is to make journalists, PR pros and marketers more successful. Muck Rack offers tools that help media professionals find and contact the most relevant journalists for their stories, and monitor how their stories perform. We are bootstrapped and profitable.

Apply at jobs@muckrack.com More info: https://muckrack.com/careers

Muck Rack | New York or Remote | https://muckrack.com

Muck Rack is looking for a talented individual to join our fast-growing tech startup in New York. Our mission is to make journalists, PR pros and marketers more successful. Muck Rack offers tools that help media professionals find and contact the most relevant journalists for their stories, and monitor how their stories perform.

You’ll be working alongside the CTO and engineering team, and with product managers and designers, to execute major technical projects on Muck Rack, lead the building of new features, and help shape our engineering culture and processes.

Our tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, SASS, Redis, Elasticsearch, Rabbitmq, Nginx, Gunicorn, Varnish, and Ansible.

You'll be successful if you:

- Have significant experience working on a complex, high-traffic site, particularly at a startup or software-as-a-service company.

- Have extensive experience with Django, Python, and other software in our tech stack, with a willingness to learn in those areas where you have less experience.

- Enjoy working with and collaborating with designers, UX experts, and product managers to create outstanding features.

- Have experience leading other engineers to ship major features on schedule.

- Enjoy helping others grow as developers and become successful.

- Take pride in the quality of the code you write. Your code is readable, testable, and understandable six months later. You adhere to the Zen of Python.

- Are able to manage complexity in a large project, and incur technical debt only after considering the tradeoffs.

- Work well in a fast-paced development environment with testing, continuous integration and multiple daily deploys.

- Can work well with remote developers.

- Are interested in journalism, news, media or social media.

More info: https://muckrack.com/job/14/senior-software-engineer or email jobs@muckrack.com

Muck Rack | New York or Remote | https://muckrack.com

Muck Rack is looking for a talented individual to join our fast-growing tech startup in New York. Our mission is to make journalists, PR pros and marketers more successful. Muck Rack offers tools that help media professionals find and contact the most relevant journalists for their stories, and monitor how their stories perform.

You’ll be working alongside the CTO and engineering team, and with product managers and designers, to execute major technical projects on Muck Rack, lead the building of new features, and help shape our engineering culture and processes.

Our tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, SASS, Redis, Elasticsearch, Nginx, Gunicorn, Varnish, and Ansible.

You'll be successful if you:

- Have significant experience working on a complex, high-traffic site, particularly at a startup or software-as-a-service company.

- Have extensive experience with Django, Python, and other software in our tech stack, with a willingness to learn in those areas where you have less experience.

- Enjoy working with and collaborating with designers, UX experts, and product managers to create outstanding features.

- Have experience leading other engineers to ship major features on schedule.

- Enjoy helping others grow as developers and become successful.

- Take pride in the quality of the code you write. Your code is readable, testable, and understandable six months later. You adhere to the Zen of Python.

- Are able to manage complexity in a large project, and incur technical debt only after considering the tradeoffs.

- Work well in a fast-paced development environment with testing, continuous integration and multiple daily deploys.

- Can work well with remote developers.

- Are interested in journalism, news, media or social media.

More info: https://muckrack.com/job/14/senior-software-engineer or email jobs@muckrack.com

Muck Rack | Sr. Software Engineer | Remote or on-site at our SoHo, NYC office

We're looking looking for a talented individual to join our fast-growing tech startup. Our mission is to make journalists, PR pros and marketers more successful. Muck Rack offers tools that help media professionals find and contact the most relevant journalists for their stories, and monitor how their stories perform.

You’ll be working alongside the CTO and engineering team, and with product managers and designers, to execute major technical projects, lead the building of new features, and help shape our engineering culture and processes.

We're a remote-first company, where everyone has the opportunity to work on-site or from anywhere in the world.

Our tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, SASS, Redis, Elasticsearch, Nginx, Gunicorn, Varnish, and Ansible.

More info here: https://muckrack.com/job/14/senior-software-engineer and you can apply at jobs@muckrack.com

Muck Rack - Remote

We're looking for a senior backend developer that's worked on a complex, high-traffic site, particularly at a startup or software-as-a-service company. Our tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, SASS, Redis, Elasticsearch, Nginx, Gunicorn, Varnish, and Ansible.

About us: Muck Rack (muckrack.com) offers tools that help media professionals find and contact the most relevant journalists for their stories, and monitor how their stories perform.

Details: http://sawhorsemedia.com/jobs/senior-software-engineer.html

Lead Software Engineer

Muck Rack (http://muckrack.com) is looking for a talented individual to join our fast-growing tech startup in New York. Our mission is to make journalists, PR pros and marketers more successful. Muck Rack offers tools that help media professionals find and contact the most relevant journalists for their stories, and monitor how their stories perform.

ABOUT THE POSITION You’ll be working alongside the CTO and engineering team, and with product managers and designers, to execute major technical projects on Muck Rack, lead the building of new features, and help shape our engineering culture and processes.

Our tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, SASS, Redis, Elasticsearch, Nginx, Gunicorn, Varnish, and Ansible.

This is a full time job based in our headquarters in SoHo, with a flexible work-at-home policy. More info and how to apply: http://sawhorsemedia.com/jobs/lead-software-engineer.html

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ElasticSearch Expert

We're also looking for an Elasticsearch expert to help with some immediate, high-priority issues as well as long-term projects including improving search queries, improving relevancy, solving glitches we've encountered, and help improve our search interface. Ideally you have deep experience with Elasticsearch, with experience building vertical search engines, solved scaling and relevancy issues, setting up monitoring tools, and can architect and code good search experiences. Email us at jobs@sawhorsemedia.com

Muck Rack (http://muckrack.com) | NYC or remote | Elasticsearch expert | Freelance/contract

We're looking for an Elasticsearch expert to help us improve queries and relevancy, deal with scaling issues, and make some immediate fixes. We have some immediate, high-priority issues as well as long-term projects. If you also know Django, that'd be great, but not a requirement.

Muck Rack connects journalists with PR pros, companies and sources. Journalists use Muck Rack to build portfolios, track the success of their articles and connect with colleagues. Companies use Muck Rack to get more press and receive real time alerts when they're mentioned in the news.

More information about our parent company here http://sawhorsemedia.com/jobs/. We're in NY but work with remote team members around the world. If you're interested, email us at jobs@sawhorsemedia.com.

I think you have a good background for a junior developer job, and I think you'd be a good hire for the right kind of company, most likely a smaller one that's interested in helping develop your skills. If you're not getting good feedback, you're probably applying for the wrong types of companies, or through the wrong venues, such as a recruiter or HR. You might get further by networking, blogging, and continuing to release projects on Github.

Nice work! I thought it was pretty obvious what the startup does, thought I might put the headline "Reward Your Employees" left, or top center, where it's likely to be the first thing someone reads, rather than the reasons, which were the first thing my eye gravitated toward.