What are the responsibilities and job description for the Computer Programmer position at Vantage?
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 :
Benefits :
Vantage Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
