Meta

Software Engineer (Technical Leadership)

USA, United States full-time Mid Salary not listed
full-time Mid level Technology & IT Curated
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About the role

Meta is seeking a Software Engineer to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have industry experience working on a range of classification and optimization problems like payment fraud, click-through rate prediction, click-fraud detection, search ranking, text/sentiment classification, collaborative filtering/recommendation, or spam detection. The position will involve taking these skills and applying them to some of the most exciting and massive social data and prediction problems that exist on the web.ResponsibilitiesDrive the team's goals & technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient.* Effectively communicate complex features & systems in detail.* Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies.* Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization.* Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas.* Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap.* Develop highly scalable classifiers and tools leveraging machine learning, data regression, and rules-based models.* Adapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments (e.g. distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU).QualificationsBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.* Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact.* Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions.* Experience in mentoring/influencing engineers across organizations.* Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term vision.* Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts.* 12+ years of experience in programming languages (Python, C++, or Java) with technical background.* 8+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, data mining or deep learning based methods. Experience in shipping products to millions of customers or have started a new line of product.

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  1. Tell us about work you have done that is close to the Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) role.
  2. How would you approach your first 30 days at Meta?
  3. Which of Python, Software and Engineer have you used recently, and what did it help you achieve?
  4. Describe a time you solved a problem without waiting to be told exactly what to do.
  5. How do you handle busy days, changing priorities, or pressure at work?

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  • Two examples that show the strengths listed on your CV.
  • A clear reason why this role and company interest you.
  • Your availability, preferred work style, and salary expectations.

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  • What would success look like in the first 90 days?
  • What are the main problems this hire should help solve?
  • How does the team give feedback and measure good work?
  • What does a normal working week look like for this role?
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I am interested in the Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) role because I can bring practical experience in Python, Software and Engineer, learn the team quickly, and contribute to the outcomes Meta needs from this hire.

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