- Location
- Remote
- Last Published
- Nov. 8, 2024
- Sector
- Business Applications
- Function
- Software Engineering
About Nacelle:
Nacelle is revolutionizing eCommerce by combining cutting-edge AI technologies with unparalleled data integration to deliver personalized experiences for merchants. Our flagship product, Genesis, pulls data from various sources—product catalogs, brand voice documents, customer feedback, and marketing transcripts—to create deep context for AI models, generating highly relevant, real-time outputs.
The role:
We are looking for a Senior Generalist Engineer who excels at Python programming, data integration, and working with modern AI/ML tools like OpenAI’s GPT and Anthropic models. In this role, you will be instrumental in ensuring that Nacelle’s secret sauce—our ability to pull in data from multiple sources to create rich, context-driven AI outputs—comes to life. We are looking for engineers to join our team who are curious by nature, practice continuous learning, are passionate about designing exceptional solutions, and who enjoy working with talented people.
Key responsibilities:
- Data Integration: Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines that pull in data from various sources, including product catalogs, brand voice documents, customer feedback, and marketing transcripts.
- AI Model Integration: Leverage APIs from OpenAI, Anthropic, or other LLM providers to integrate pre-trained models into Nacelle’s backend systems.
- Backend Development: Write scalable, maintainable Python code to support Nacelle’s AI-driven personalization features. Ensure robust handling of large-scale data ingestion, transformation, and retrieval.
- Data Warehousing: Implement and manage data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery) to efficiently store, query, and manage large datasets across our platform.
- API Development: Design APIs that deliver real-time, context-rich data to AI models, ensuring optimal performance and response times.
- TDD: Follow Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
- Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, front-end engineers, and AI/ML specialists to create seamless and intuitive experiences for merchants.
Requirements:
- 6+ years of experience as a software engineer with a strong focus on Python and backend development.
- Expertise in data engineering: Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines and integrating multiple data sources into AI models.
- Experience with AI/ML tools: Familiarity with OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar API-driven AI models. Ability to integrate pre-trained models into production environments.
- Data Warehousing Expertise: Experience working with data warehouses like Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery.
- Strong understanding of modern development practices, including Test-Driven Development (TDD), design patterns (e.g., Dependency Injection), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS) and containerization tools (Kubernetes).
- Nice to have: Experience with JavaScript, as some of the codebase involves JS.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Benefits & Perks:
- Competitive compensation packages
- Flexible, remote-first work environment.
- The opportunity to work at the intersection of AI, data, and eCommerce, helping shape the future of personalized online experiences.
- Stock options
- Robust benefits packages which include medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, as well as employer-paid life insurance, and short/long-term disability
- 401(k) with an employer match
- Unlimited Mental Health Teledoc appointments
- Paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO in addition to paid holidays and sick days
- Monthly wifi stipend
- Home office setup budget
Nacelle is committed to paying fairly and competitively which is why we partner with a salary and equity database company to ensure we are aligned with market rates. The salary estimate for this role is $165,000-$200,000, actual compensation will vary depending on candidates’ location and experience level.
If you meet most of the criteria for this position, we would still love to hear from you! We believe in fostering talent, growing and providing training to our team as we believe great human beings come first and building skillsets can happen over time.
Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment at Nacelle. We unfortunately are not able to provide employment sponsorship at this time.
Nacelle is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Nacelle is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities who may require additional assistance in engaging in our application and interview process. Please feel free to reach out to Nacelle's Talent Acquisition Team if you need any assistance completing our application or need accommodations during your interview process.