XING is the social network for business professionals with millions of members all over the world. Help us shape the future – for a better working life! We currently have an opening at our offices in Hamburg and Barcelona.
Our Data Science team is responsible for turning data into services and products for XING. Around 20 Data scientists, architects and engineers work together to create highly scalable solutions that serve millions of users. We bring state-of-the-art algorithms into production by making use of technologies such as Hadoop (e.g. Hive, Spark), Akka, Kafka, Cassandra, elasticsearch, etc. At the moment, we are forming a new sub-team that aims at enriching XING’s data graph and developing new data services. For this new sub-team, we are seeking a Data Scientist who helps with data cleaning, designing algorithms/models and implementing these algorithms/models into production services. If you want to get things done rather than sit in meetings, like helping others and learning from them, you will have fun in our team!
A challenging task:
- Solve challenging problems in the context of data cleaning, data mining and machine learning
- Perform analyses on massive amounts of data and build scalable machine learning models and algorithms
- Implement and enhance algorithms and services using technologies such as Scala, elasticsearch, and Hadoop technologies (e.g. Hive, MapReduce)
A convincing background:
- MSc or higher degree in Computer Science, Math or similar discipline
- Hands-on experience in exploring large datasets (e.g. with Hive, R, Python, etc.) and creating machine learning models
- Solid programming skills (preferably also in Scala/Java)
- Experience in implementing scalable models and algorithms that process large datasets and are used in production services
- Theoretical and practical knowledge about text processing, information retrieval or machine learning
- Proficient English language skills (German is not required)