COMPUTER PROGRAMMER

Vantage Labs (www.vantage.com) is a world leader and innovator in the development and leveraging of artificial intelligence and natural language technologies into a broad spectrum of vertical markets and industries. Integrating patented AI and linguistic tools, Vantage offers world-class products and services, including award-winning Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions, into various vertical markets: Education, Government, Healthcare, and more.

SUMMARY:

We are seeking a well-rounded Computer Programmer to join our company on a full-time permanent basis and contribute to our search technology development efforts while being based out of our development office in New Hope, PA. As part of a small team, you will be responsible for taking on various responsibilities and embracing the Agile development approach in order to help us continue to develop high-quality products by being involved in cross-functional discussions and driving new innovative ideas. This position reports directly to our VP of Development. You will be exposed to the design, development, and research on innovative linguistic-based technologies.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Identify and understand business requirements for new or improved features
• Extend and modify PHP business logic and database persistence to support new end user, administrative, and reporting features.
• Build REST API endpoints to facilitate integration and secured flow of information between the web interface and back-end server code using PHP, Java and Spring Boot
• Research algorithms, develop training data sets, and produce predictive scoring and classification Machine Learning (ML) models
• Transform natural language raw data into meaningful language features using Natural Language Professing (NLP) techniques to produce inputs to the ML text classification algorithms for supervised and unsupervised learning
• Iterate until f-measure scores for recall/precision are acceptable according to gold-standard data
• Utilize ML scoring and classification models in core Java applications through REST API clients to expand available writing assignments and feedback
• Design and implement new Web user-interface elements for end users to display new and improved features using HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript/Angular.
• Write complex database queries to extract historical data for training sets and reporting, using SQL, PL/pgSQL (Postgres), DBeaver, and JPA
• Write programs to extract, process, and store data from various 3rd party data services/APIs and integrate them into the project application using PHP, Java, GraphQL and Maven
• Design and implement improved algorithms and methodologies to create scalable solutions to manage high levels of user traffic for the application.
• Review code for readability, compliance to coding standards, consistency, security, best practices, and to ensure that the feature is ready for formal testing
• Conduct unit and integration testing of existing and newly added features
• Debug programs, rewrite and redesign the source code to improve performance
• Knowledge in some of the standard front-end technologies like CSS, JavaScript (we use JQuery), REST, JSON. Experience with STRUTS, SPRING, SQL, HTML, XML, JavaScript and/or SCRUM is a plus.
• Knowledge of Open Source libraries, tools and frameworks, e.g. for logging, testing, and building.
• Excitement for the latest trends in application design.
• Experience with agile software development methodologies like XP and Scrum.
• Interest to learn more about new languages and frameworks.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a directly related specialty Information Technology field is required.
• 1-3+ years of PHP software development experience is preferred: you must have excellent understanding of MYSQL and deep architectural understanding of PHP web applications & application servers [advanced educational accomplishments will also be considered].
• Good knowledge in some back-end technologies (i.e. Symphony, Laravel, Lucene, SQL, or others).
• Superior creative and innovative problem-solving skills.
• Initiative and the ability to work independently and especially in a team.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of the technologies related to search, linguistics applied to search, and Information Retrieval [IR] issues.
• Experience with technologies such as lucene, solr, or other IR technologies.
• Experience with the good and the bad of both successful and failed projects.
• Ability to slice and dice problems and tasks so they can be worked on by others and ability to mentor others (interns, rookies, and junior developers).
• Relaxed yet enthusiastic and motivated attitude towards the craft, company, and products.

Please refer the Job description for details