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Software Engineer, Machine Learning

Mercari Minato-ku, Tokyo November 1 2024
  • 💴 No salary range given
  • 🏡
    Partially remote
  • 🌏
    Apply from abroad
    Relocate to Japan
  • 💬
    No Japanese required
    Business English
  • 🧪
    Intermediate level
    Unspecified years of experience

About Mercari

Mercari Minato-ku, Tokyo

Mercari is a marketplace app that makes it easy for people to safely sell and ship their things. Having been downloaded over 100 million times, it is now among the largest peer-to-peer selling platforms globally.

Key benefits

  • Full flextime
  • Outside work encouraged
  • Employee stock ownership program

About the position

As a Machine Learning Engineer at Mercari, you will be responsible for analyzing C2C purchasing data in order to provide our users with a better, safer e-commerce experience.

Details

  • Improving customer’s behavior prediction.
  • Carrying out anomaly detection.
  • Providing a recommendation engine.
  • Optimizing item search algorithms.
  • Developing a system for image recognition.

Requirements

  • Experience and expertise in machine learning for more than 3 years.
  • Experience working on end-to-end development of machine learning applications, including prototyping, model evaluation, and error analysis, using Python or other languages.
  • Experience developing web services using Flask, Django, or other web frameworks.
  • Fundamental knowledge of RDBMS and SQL.
  • Experience leading various projects and, proposing solutions to tackle problems, based on knowledge of domain-specific services and systems.

Hiring Process

  1. 1

    Application screening

  2. 2

    Skill assessment

    You will be asked to complete a skill assessment on HackerRank or GitHub.

  3. 3

    Interviews

  4. 4

    Reference check

    We will ask for online references around the timing of the final interview.

  5. 5

    Offer

    Offers will be determined carefully in consideration of the final interview and the reference check.

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