Overview

InfoScout helps brands and retailers grow via next generation consumer insights derived from America’s largest purchase panel. Through its portfolio of proprietary mobile apps that engage a representative sample of American shoppers, InfoScout captures nearly 1 out of every 500 shopping trips made across the country. These shoppers also complete in-the-moment surveys to explain the ‘why behind the buy.’

About InfoScout

InfoScout is looking for a self-starting engineer with a deep desire to learn and develop upon our receipt transcription and consumer application technology stacks. InfoScout currently receives over 300k receipt images per day from our top rated mobile apps, running them through a process that includes computer vision, OCR, machine learning, crowd sourcing, big data ETL, and finally down into our data warehouse. This is an opportunity to jump in and get exposed to all of those technologies while making a meaningful impact on our technology and company.

To help accomplish this goal, you will have the environment to execute on your vision, the tools you need to rapidly iterate through your ideas and a dedicated team to help make you and your work better. In addition to writing quality software, we're looking for individuals who also enjoy the other aspects of building a new company: designing features, making good product decisions, programming at all levels of the stack, and the wearing of many hats.

Exceptional candidates will have:

High proficiency in python
High proficiency writing SQL and working with relational databases (MySQL)
Experience working with modern web frameworks (Django, Tornado)
Familiarity with message oriented architectures (Celery, RabbitMQ)
Familiarity with Memcached, Vertica, OpenCV
Deployed environments in Amazon Web Services (Terraform, Jenkins, ect)

Skills & Requirements

Experience with server-side development, especially Python
Understanding of general web architecture
Experience with multithreaded programming
Experience developing, releasing, and supporting backend code
Fully comfortable with version control systems
Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.