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Computer Programmer

Vantage Learning
Hope, PA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/23/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/20/2025
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. 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 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.

Benefits:
  • Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Short/Long-Term Disability
  • Life Insurance
  • ID Theft Protection
  • 401K
  • Tuition Reimbursement, paid training

Vantage Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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