PollyEx is hiring a

Sr./Staff Software Engineer (Back End)- AI Team

San Francisco, United States
Full-Time
Who You Are:

You have 6+ years of software development experience under your belt and are looking for your next challenge in a hyper-growth, fast-paced, industry disrupting, SaaS company. You are excited to work with emerging technologies and modern tech stack with a collaborative engineering team, where you will have a direct impact in the delivery of first class software products. Your experience mentoring others, working with distributed systems, relational databases, and all things software development has prepared you to take your career to the next level.

Does this sound like you? If so, keep reading and apply today!

What you’ll do:

  • Lead and contribute to the system design for our AI/ML-based services
  • Develop, implement, and test prompting strategies for a variety of products over various LLMs
  • Analyze internal and external feedback and behaviors to continuously improve the quality of prompts and language output
  • Research and adopt best practices based on experience, analysis, and input from the broader software team.
  • Develop code that is highly readable, maintainable, and testable including documentation, excellent architecture, and automated testing
  • Actively participate in interviewing and evaluating new team members
  • Mentor junior members of the software engineering team in all aspects of software development across multiple projects with multiple customers
  • Prioritize your work and the work of others with a sense of urgency to ship products in time to have the desired business impact while balancing a quality mindset
  • Review code, help drive technical excellence through best practices and latest tools

What you have:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • 6+ years of professional experience
  • Foundational knowledge of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning tailored to a specific business need
  • Senior level experience working with Large Language Models such as GPT-3/4, ChatGPT, Claude, or CoHere
  • Proficiency in Python, Javascript, SQL, C#
  • Knowledge of cloud computing platforms and AI deployment tools
  • A strong background in AI product development
  • Ability to define and execute on strategic and visionary goals
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to work in a team environment

Extras you bring to the table:

  • Deploying into a public cloud service (AWS, GCP, etc.)
  • Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
  • Experience in deploying AI tools
  • Ability to gather and preprocess data for use in ML and AI
  • Experience with service monitoring, metrics, alerting, log aggregation, and tracing
  • Experience with functional/acceptance testing
  • Experience with popular AI frameworks and libraries such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, huggingface, Amazon Bedrock, or Anthropic

Why join Polly?

  • We are attacking a trillion-dollar market with gross inefficiencies and seeking to transform the way an entire industry operates 
  • We have an experienced leadership team that previously built large and impactful platforms 
  • Outstanding opportunity for professional growth and upward mobility 
  • Direct engagement with the decision makers and senior business leaders 
  • Competitive salaries
  • 100% paid medical/vision/dental/disability/life insurance 
  • Flexible vacation
  • Hybrid environment; 3x weekly in an innovation center in San Francisco or Dallas.

Let’s get to know each other.

Polly is transforming the mortgage industry with its modern, data-driven capital markets ecosystem. Banks, credit unions, and mortgage lenders nationwide trust Polly’s revolutionary Product and Pricing Engine (PPE), Loan Trading Exchange, and actionable data and analytics to automate and optimize the entire capital markets value chain, helping their secondary teams operate faster, smarter, and more profitably. Polly was founded in 2019 by a seasoned team of technology and mortgage experts and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. 

To learn more, follow Polly on LinkedIn or visit www.polly.io.  

Polly is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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